**Aspera**
By using Aspera, we completely avoid having to write to the root partition, which is limited to 8G in AWS Batch. This was previously causing a fair amount of failures which should now be eliminated.
**Minimum read length**
A minimum read length was added to the fastq quality trimming step. The default value selected was 30bp, which corresponds to 10aa. With a default minimum alignment score of 20, there should be no case in which a trimmed read with < 30bp had ever produced an alignment in previous versions of the code. Therefore the output should be the same as the previous release, as long as the minimum alignment score was >=10.