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.TH "SAMBAMBA\-MARKDUP" "1" "February 2015" "" ""
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.SH "NAME"
\fBsambamba\-markdup\fR \- finding duplicate reads in BAM file
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBsambamba markdup\fR \fIOPTIONS\fR <input\.bam> <output\.bam>
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Marks (by default) or removes duplicate reads\. For determining whether a read is a duplicate or not, the same `sum of base qualities\' method is used as in Picard \fIhttps://broadinstitute\.github\.io/picard/picard\-metric\-definitions\.html\fR\.
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-remove\-duplicates\fR
remove duplicates instead of just marking them
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.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-nthreads\fR=\fINTHREADS\fR
number of threads to use
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\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-compression\-level\fR=\fIN\fR
specify compression level of the resulting file (from 0 to 9)");
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\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-show\-progress\fR
show progressbar in STDERR
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\fB\-\-tmpdir\fR=\fITMPDIR\fR
specify directory for temporary files; default is \fB/tmp\fR
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.TP
\fB\-\-hash\-table\-size\fR=\fIHASHTABLESIZE\fR
size of hash table for finding read pairs (default is 262144 reads); will be rounded down to the nearest power of two; should be \fB> (average coverage) * (insert size)\fR for good performance
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\fB\-\-overflow\-list\-size\fR=\fIOVERFLOWLISTSIZE\fR
size of the overflow list where reads, thrown away from the hash table, get a second chance to meet their pairs (default is 200000 reads); increasing the size reduces the number of temporary files created
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\fB\-\-io\-buffer\-size\fR=\fIBUFFERSIZE\fR
controls sizes of two buffers of BUFFERSIZE \fImegabytes\fR each, used for reading and writing BAM during the second pass (default is 128)
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
Picard \fIhttps://broadinstitute\.github\.io/picard/picard\-metric\-definitions\.html\fR metric definitions for removing duplicates\.
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.SH "BUGS"
External sort is not implemented\. Thus, memory consumption grows by 2Gb per each 100M reads\. Check that you have enough RAM before running the tool\.