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.TH BEDOPS-STARCH "1" "October 2018" "bedops-starch 2.4.35+dfsg" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
bedops-starch \- manual page for bedops-starch 2.4.35+dfsg
.SH DESCRIPTION
starch
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citation: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/14/1919.abstract
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https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts277
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binary version: 2.4.35 (typical) (creates archive version: 2.2.0)
authors:  Alex Reynolds and Shane Neph
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USAGE: starch [ \fB\-\-note=\fR"foo bar..." ]
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[ \fB\-\-bzip2\fR | \fB\-\-gzip\fR ]
[ \fB\-\-omit\-signature\fR ]
[ \fB\-\-report\-progress\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR ]
[ \fB\-\-header\fR ] [ <unique\-tag> ] <bed\-file>
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* BED input must be sorted lexicographically (e.g., using BEDOPS sort\-bed).
* Please use '\-' to indicate reading BED data from standard input.
* Output must be directed to a regular file.
* The bzip2 compression type makes smaller archives, while gzip extracts
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faster.
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Process Flags
\fB\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\fR
\fB\-\-note=\fR"foo bar..."   Append note to output archive metadata (optional).
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\fB\-\-bzip2\fR | \fB\-\-gzip\fR
Specify backend compression type (optional, default
is bzip2).
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\fB\-\-omit\-signature\fR
Skip generating per\-chromosome data integrity signature
(optional, default is to generate signature).
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\fB\-\-report\-progress\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR
Report compression progress every N elements per
chromosome to standard error stream (optional)
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\fB\-\-header\fR
Support BED input with custom UCSC track, SAM or VCF
headers, or generic comments (optional).
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<unique\-tag>
Optional. Specify unique identifier for transformed
data.
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\fB\-\-version\fR
Show binary version.
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\fB\-\-help\fR
Show this usage message.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B bedops-starch
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B bedops-starch
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info bedops-starch
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should give you access to the complete manual.