mash(1)

mash1

Fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using minhash

Usage

mash <command> [options] [arguments ...]

Overview

mash is the main executable for the Mash software. The actual functionality is provided by the subtools ('commands'):

Commands

bounds

Print a table of Mash error bounds.

dist

Estimate the distance of query sequences to references.

info

Display information about sketch files.

paste

Create a single sketch file from multiple sketch files.

screen

Determine whether query sequences are within a larger pool of sequences.

sketch

Create sketches (reduced representations for fast operations).

triangle

Estimate a lower-triangular distance matrix.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12–13

From mash 2.3+dfsg-6+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.