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PICOPORE(1) User Commands PICOPORE(1)

NAME

picopore - reducing the size of an Oxford Nanopore Technologies dataset without losing any data

SYNOPSIS

picopore [-h] --mode {lossless,deep-lossless,raw} [--revert] [--fastq] [--summary] [--manual STR] [-v] [-y] [-t INT] [--prefix STR] [--skip-root] [--print-every INT] [input [input ...]]

DESCRIPTION

A tool for reducing the size of an Oxford Nanopore Technologies dataset without losing any data

OPTIONS

See also:

monitors a directory for new reads and compresses them in real time
compresses to temporary files and checks that all datasets and attributes are equal (lossless modes only)
renames groups and datasets within FAST5 files

positional arguments:

list of directories or fast5 files to shrink

optional arguments:

show this help message and exit
choose compression mode
reverts files to original size (lossless modes only)
retain FASTQ data (raw mode only) (Default: --fastq)
retain summary data (raw mode only) (Default: --nosummary)
manually remove only groups whose paths contain STR (raw mode only, regular expressions permitted, overrides defaults)
show version number and exit
skip confirm step
number of threads (Default: 1)
add prefix to output files to prevent overwrite
ignore files in root input directories for albacore realtime compression (Default: --no-skip-root)
print a dot every approximately INT files, or -1 to silence (Default: 100)

AUTHOR


This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and
can be used for any other usage of the program.

June 2020 picopore 1.2.0