.TH PicardCommandLine "1" "September 2015" "picard-tools 1.138" "User Commands" .SH NAME PicardCommandLine \- manipulate SAM and BAM files .SH SYNOPSIS \fBPicardCommandLine\fR \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIOPTION\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. Picard Tools includes lots of utilities to manipulate SAM and BAM files. The whole list with a short description can be obtained by running \fBPicardCommandLine \-h\fR. Description of the options and parameters of all commands can be obtained by running \fBPicardCommandLine COMMAND \-h\fR. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" samtools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright 2010 The Broad Institute .SH "SEE ALSO" http://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/