NAME¶

starch - manual page for starch 2.4.20+dfsg

DESCRIPTION¶

starch

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

USAGE: starch [--note="foo bar..."] [--bzip2 | --gzip] [--header] [<unique-tag>] <bed-file>

* 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.

Process Flags:

--note="foo bar..."

Append note to output archive metadata (optional)

--bzip2 | --gzip

Specify backend compression type (optional, default is bzip2)

--header

Support BED input with custom UCSC track, SAM or VCF headers, or generic comments (optional)

<unique-tag>

Specify unique identifier for transformed data (optional)

--help

Show this usage message

--version

Show binary version

SEE ALSO¶

The full documentation for starch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and starch programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info starch

should give you access to the complete manual.