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Heng Li committed Jan 19, 2011
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.B -c
Build color-space index. The input fast should be in nucleotide space.
.TP
.B -p STR
.BI -p \ STR
Prefix of the output database [same as db filename]
.TP
.B -a STR
.BI -a \ STR
Algorithm for constructing BWT index. Available options are:
.RS
.TP
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.B OPTIONS:
.RS
.TP 10
.B -n NUM
.BI -n \ NUM
Maximum edit distance if the value is INT, or the fraction of missing
alignments given 2% uniform base error rate if FLOAT. In the latter
case, the maximum edit distance is automatically chosen for different
read lengths. [0.04]
.TP
.B -o INT
.BI -o \ INT
Maximum number of gap opens [1]
.TP
.B -e INT
.BI -e \ INT
Maximum number of gap extensions, -1 for k-difference mode (disallowing
long gaps) [-1]
.TP
.B -d INT
.BI -d \ INT
Disallow a long deletion within INT bp towards the 3'-end [16]
.TP
.B -i INT
.BI -i \ INT
Disallow an indel within INT bp towards the ends [5]
.TP
.B -l INT
.BI -l \ INT
Take the first INT subsequence as seed. If INT is larger than the query
sequence, seeding will be disabled. For long reads, this option is
typically ranged from 25 to 35 for `-k 2'. [inf]
.TP
.B -k INT
.BI -k \ INT
Maximum edit distance in the seed [2]
.TP
.B -t INT
.BI -t \ INT
Number of threads (multi-threading mode) [1]
.TP
.B -M INT
.BI -M \ INT
Mismatch penalty. BWA will not search for suboptimal hits with a score
lower than (bestScore-misMsc). [3]
.TP
.B -O INT
.BI -O \ INT
Gap open penalty [11]
.TP
.B -E INT
.BI -E \ INT
Gap extension penalty [4]
.TP
.B -R INT
.BI -R \ INT
Proceed with suboptimal alignments if there are no more than INT equally
best hits. This option only affects paired-end mapping. Increasing this
threshold helps to improve the pairing accuracy at the cost of speed,
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.I maxDiff
differences will be found. This mode is much slower than the default.
.TP
.B -q INT
.BI -q \ INT
Parameter for read trimming. BWA trims a read down to
argmax_x{\\sum_{i=x+1}^l(INT-q_i)} if q_l<INT where l is the original
read length. [0]
.TP
.B -I
The input is in the Illumina 1.3+ read format (quality equals ASCII-64).
.TP
.BI -B \ INT
Length of barcode starting from the 5'-end. When
.I INT
is positive, the barcode of each read will be trimmed before mapping and will
be written at the
.B BC
SAM tag. For paired-end reads, the barcode from both ends are concatenated. [0]
.TP
.B -b
Specify the input read sequence file is the BAM format. For paired-end
data, two ends in a pair must be grouped together and options
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.B OPTIONS:
.RS
.TP 10
.B -a INT
.BI -a \ INT
Score of a match [1]
.TP
.B -b INT
.BI -b \ INT
Mismatch penalty [3]
.TP
.B -q INT
.BI -q \ INT
Gap open penalty [5]
.TP
.B -r INT
.BI -r \ INT
Gap extension penalty. The penalty for a contiguous gap of size k is
q+k*r. [2]
.TP
.B -t INT
.BI -t \ INT
Number of threads in the multi-threading mode [1]
.TP
.B -w INT
.BI -w \ INT
Band width in the banded alignment [33]
.TP
.B -T INT
.BI -T \ INT
Minimum score threshold divided by a [37]
.TP
.B -c FLOAT
.BI -c \ FLOAT
Coefficient for threshold adjustment according to query length. Given an
l-long query, the threshold for a hit to be retained is
a*max{T,c*log(l)}. [5.5]
.TP
.B -z INT
.BI -z \ INT
Z-best heuristics. Higher -z increases accuracy at the cost of speed. [1]
.TP
.B -s INT
.BI -s \ INT
Maximum SA interval size for initiating a seed. Higher -s increases
accuracy at the cost of speed. [3]
.TP
.B -N INT
.BI -N \ INT
Minimum number of seeds supporting the resultant alignment to skip
reverse alignment. [5]
.RE
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NM Edit distance
MD Mismatching positions/bases
AS Alignment score
BC Barcode sequence
_
X0 Number of best hits
X1 Number of suboptimal hits found by BWA
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