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.TH STARCH "1" "January 2017" "starch 2.4.20+dfsg" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
starch \- manual page for starch 2.4.20+dfsg
.SH DESCRIPTION
starch
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citation: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/14/1919.abstract
binary version: 2.4.20 (creates archive version: 2.1.0)
authors:  Alex Reynolds and Shane Neph
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USAGE: starch [\-\-note="foo bar..."] [\-\-bzip2 | \fB\-\-gzip]\fR [\-\-header] [<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 faster.
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Process Flags:
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\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\-\-header\fR
Support BED input with custom UCSC track, SAM or VCF headers, or generic comments (optional)
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<unique\-tag>
Specify unique identifier for transformed data (optional)
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\fB\-\-help\fR
Show this usage message
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\fB\-\-version\fR
Show binary version
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B starch
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B starch
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info starch
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.