.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.8. .TH SALMON_INDEX "1" "January 2019" "salmon_index 0.12.0+ds1" "User Commands" .SH NAME salmon_index \- highly-accurate, transcript-level quantification estimates from RNA-seq data .SH DESCRIPTION Index ========== Creates a salmon index. .SS "Command Line Options:" .TP \fB\-v\fR [ \fB\-\-version\fR ] print version string .TP \fB\-h\fR [ \fB\-\-help\fR ] produce help message .TP \fB\-t\fR [ \fB\-\-transcripts\fR ] arg Transcript fasta file. .TP \fB\-k\fR [ \fB\-\-kmerLen\fR ] arg (=31) The size of k\-mers that should be used for the quasi index. .TP \fB\-i\fR [ \fB\-\-index\fR ] arg salmon index. .TP \fB\-\-gencode\fR This flag will expect the input transcript fasta to be in GENCODE format, and will split the transcript name at the first '|' character. These reduced names will be used in the output and when looking for these transcripts in a gene to transcript GTF. .TP \fB\-\-keepDuplicates\fR This flag will disable the default indexing behavior of discarding sequence\-identical duplicate transcripts. If this flag is passed, then duplicate transcripts that appear in the input will be retained and quantified separately. .TP \fB\-p\fR [ \fB\-\-threads\fR ] arg (=2) Number of threads to use (only used for computing bias features) .TP \fB\-\-perfectHash\fR [quasi index only] Build the index using a perfect hash rather than a dense hash. This will require less memory (especially during quantification), but will take longer to construct .TP \fB\-\-type\fR arg (=quasi) The type of index to build; the only option is "quasi" in this version of salmon.