fastaq-to_tiling_bam(1)

fastaq-to_tiling_bam1

Make a bam file of reads uniformly spread across the input reference

Overview

usage: fastaq_to_tiling_bam [options] <infile> <read_length> <read_step> <read_prefix> <outfile>

Takes a sequence file. Makes a BAM file containing perfect (unpaired) reads tiling the whole genome

positional arguments:

infile

Name of input fasta/q file

read_length

Length of reads

read_step

Distance between start of each read

read_prefix

Prefix of read names

outfile

Name of output BAM file

options:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--qual_char QUAL_CHAR

Character to use for quality score [I]

--read_group READ_GROUP

Add the given read group ID to all reads [42]

Important: assumes that samtools is in your path

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

From fastaq 3.17.0-9 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.