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.TH BOWTIE2-INSPECT-L "1" "March 2021" "bowtie2-inspect-l 2.4.2" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
bowtie2-inspect-l \- extracts information from a bowtie2 index
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bowtie2-inspect
[\fI\,options\/\fR]\fI\,* <bt2_base>\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION

Bowtie 2 version 2.4.2 by Ben Langmead (langmea@cs.jhu.edu, www.cs.jhu.edu/~langmea)
.TP
<bt2_base>
bt2 filename minus trailing .1.bt2l/.2.bt2l
.IP
By default, prints FASTA records of the indexed nucleotide sequences to
standard out.  With \fB\-n\fR, just prints names.  With \fB\-s\fR, just prints a summary of
the index parameters and sequences.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-a\fR/\-\-across <int>
Number of characters across in FASTA output (default: 60)
.TP
\fB\-n\fR/\-\-names
Print reference sequence names only
.TP
\fB\-s\fR/\-\-summary
Print summary incl. ref names, lengths, index properties
.TP
\fB\-v\fR/\-\-verbose
Verbose output (for debugging)
.TP
\fB\-h\fR/\-\-help
print detailed description of tool and its options
.PP