.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.15. .TH PICOPORE-REALTIME "1" "June 2020" "picopore-realtime 1.2.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME picopore-realtime \- monitors a directory for new reads and compresses them in real time .SH SYNOPSIS .B picopore\-realtime [\-h] \fB\-\-mode\fR {lossless,deep\-lossless,raw} [\-\-revert] [\-\-fastq] [\-\-summary] [\-\-manual STR] [\-v] [\-y] [\-t INT] [\-\-prefix STR] [\-\-skip\-root] [\-\-print\-every INT] [input [input ...]] .SH DESCRIPTION A tool for reducing the size of an Oxford Nanopore Technologies dataset without losing any data .PP picopore\-realtime monitors a directory for new reads and compresses them in real time .SH OPTIONS .SS "positional arguments:" .TP input list of directories or fast5 files to shrink .SS "optional arguments:" .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR show this help message and exit .TP \fB\-\-mode\fR {lossless,deep\-lossless,raw} choose compression mode .TP \fB\-\-revert\fR reverts files to original size (lossless modes only) .TP \fB\-\-fastq\fR, \fB\-\-no\-fastq\fR retain FASTQ data (raw mode only) (Default: \fB\-\-fastq\fR) .TP \fB\-\-summary\fR, \fB\-\-no\-summary\fR retain summary data (raw mode only) (Default: \fB\-\-nosummary\fR) .TP \fB\-\-manual\fR STR manually remove only groups whose paths contain STR (raw mode only, regular expressions permitted, overrides defaults) .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR show version number and exit .TP \fB\-y\fR skip confirm step .TP \fB\-t\fR INT, \fB\-\-threads\fR INT number of threads (Default: 1) .TP \fB\-\-prefix\fR STR add prefix to output files to prevent overwrite .TP \fB\-\-skip\-root\fR, \fB\-\-no\-skip\-root\fR ignore files in root input directories for albacore realtime compression (Default: \fB\-\-no\-skip\-root\fR) .TP \fB\-\-print\-every\fR INT print a dot every approximately INT files, or \fB\-1\fR to silence (Default: 100) .SH AUTHOR This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage of the program.