add the Bioconda channel as well as the other channels bioconda depends on. It is important to add them in this order (this needs to be done once)

$ conda config --add channels defaults
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda config --add channels bioconda

It is recommended that you use Conda environment so that you install tools and dependencies in this "sandbox" environment without messing with your system. Don't worry, it's easy - just type the following command. N.B. pispino only supports Python3, but none of this should matter if you use the Conda environment. It should just work.

create a Conda environment (here named "myNGSenv" but you can choose any name)

$ conda create -n myNGSenv python=3.6 pispino 

###For preparing (quality filter, reindex, join, merge etc.) raw data from Illumina sequencing platform for further processing by PIPITS, QIIME etc.

Prerequisite

All you need is a directory with your raw FASTQ sequences (can be compressed with .gz or .bzip2 or uncompressed).

Usage

Illumina reads are generally provided as demultiplexed FASTQ files where BASESPACE (Illumina software) splits the reads into separate files, one for each barcode.

first of all, get into your environment you just created

$ source activate myNGSenv

create a list file to specify (1) sample names, (2) file names of forward reads and (3) file names of reverse reads. This can be done with pispino_createreadpairslist which will generate a tab-delimited text file for all read-pairs from the directory containing your fresh raw sequences from sequencer. "rawdata" is the directory with your FASTQ sequences

$ pispino_createreadpairslist -i rawdata -o readpairslist.txt

inspect "readpairslist.txt" to see everything looks right, and once happy, process the data with the following: (see more options by "pispino_seqprep -h")

$ pispino_seqprep -i rawdata -o pispino_seqprep_output -l readpairslist.txt

to leave the environment

$ source deactivate