nthash(1)

nthash1

Recursive hash function for hashing all possible k-mers in a dna/rna sequence

Usage

ntHash -k VAR -o VAR [-f VAR] [-h] [-s VAR] [--long] [--binary] [--verbose] files

Overview

Unknown argument: --help

Positional arguments:

files

Input sequence files [nargs: 0 or more] [required]

Optional arguments:

-v, --version prints version information and exits

-k

k-mer size [required]

-o

Output file (for -f collect) or directory path [required]

-f

Output file organization (store hashes for each 'file', 'record', or 'collect' all hashes into a single file [default: "file"]

-h

Number of hashes per k-mer/seed [default: 1]

-s

Input spaced seed patterns separated by commas (e.g. 1110111,11011011). Performs k-mer hashing if no value provided.

--long

Optimize file reader for long sequences (>5kbp)

--binary

Output hashes in binary files (otherwise plain text)

--verbose

Print progress to stdout

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Author

This manpage was written by Nilesh Patra for the Debian distribution and
can be used for any other usage of the program.

From nthash 2.3.0+dfsg-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.