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NAME

       leaff - sequence library utilities and applications

SYNOPSIS

       leaff [-f fasta-file] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       LEAFF  (Let's  Extract  Anything  From Fasta) is a utility program for working with multi-
       fasta files. In addition to providing random access to the base level, it includes several
       analysis functions.

OPTIONS

       SOURCE FILES
          -f file:     use sequence in 'file' (-F is also allowed for historical reasons)
          -A file:     read actions from 'file'

       SOURCE FILE EXAMINATION
          -d:          print the number of sequences in the fasta
          -i name:     print an index, labelling the source 'name'

       OUTPUT OPTIONS
          -6 <#>:      insert a newline every 60 letters
                         (if the next arg is a number, newlines are inserted every
                         n letters, e.g., -6 80.  Disable line breaks with -6 0,
                         or just don't use -6!)
          -e beg end:  Print only the bases from position 'beg' to position 'end'
                         (space based, relative to the FORWARD sequence!)  If
                         beg == end, then the entire sequence is printed.  It is an
                         error to specify beg > end, or beg > len, or end > len.
          -ends n      Print n bases from each end of the sequence.  One input
                         sequence generates two output sequences, with '_5' or '_3'
                         appended to the ID.  If 2n >= length of the sequence, the
                         sequence itself is printed, no ends are extracted (they
                         overlap).
          -C:          complement the sequences
          -H:          DON'T print the defline
          -h:          Use the next word as the defline ("-H -H" will reset to the
                         original defline
          -R:          reverse the sequences
          -u:          uppercase all bases

       SEQUENCE SELECTION
          -G n s l:    print n randomly generated sequences, 0 < s <= length <= l
          -L s l:      print all sequences such that s <= length < l
          -N l h:      print all sequences such that l <= % N composition < h
                         (NOTE 0.0 <= l < h < 100.0)
                         (NOTE that you cannot print sequences with 100% N
                          This is a useful bug).
          -q file:     print sequences from the seqid list in 'file'
          -r num:      print 'num' randomly picked sequences
          -s seqid:    print the single sequence 'seqid'
          -S f l:      print all the sequences from ID 'f' to 'l' (inclusive)
          -W:          print all sequences (do the whole file)

       LONGER HELP
          -help analysis
          -help examples

       ANALYSIS FUNCTIONS
          --findduplicates a.fasta
                       Reports sequences that are present more than once.  Output
                       is a list of pairs of deflines, separated by a newline.

          --mapduplicates a.fasta b.fasta
                       Builds a map of IIDs from a.fasta and b.fasta that have
                       identical sequences.  Format is "IIDa <-> IIDb"

          --md5 a.fasta:
                       Don't print the sequence, but print the md5 checksum
                       (of the entire sequence) followed by the entire defline.

          --partition     prefix [ n[gmk]bp | n ] a.fasta
          --partitionmap         [ n[gmk]bp | n ] a.fasta
                       Partition the sequences into roughly equal size pieces of
                       size nbp, nkbp, nmbp or ngbp; or into n roughly equal sized
                       parititions.  Sequences larger that the partition size are
                       in a partition by themself.  --partitionmap writes a
                       description of the partition to stdout; --partiton creates
                       a fasta file 'prefix-###.fasta' for each partition.
                       Example: -F some.fasta --partition parts 130mbp
                                -F some.fasta --partition parts 16

          --segment prefix n a.fasta
                       Splits the sequences into n files, prefix-###.fasta.
                       Sequences are not reordered; the first n sequences are in
                       the first file, the next n in the second file, etc.

          --gccontent a.fasta
                       Reports the GC content over a sliding window of
                       3, 5, 11, 51, 101, 201, 501, 1001, 2001 bp.

          --testindex a.fasta
                       Test the index of 'file'.  If index is up-to-date, leaff
                       exits successfully, else, leaff exits with code 1.  If an
                       index file is supplied, that one is tested, otherwise, the
                       default index file name is used.

          --dumpblocks a.fasta
                       Generates a list of the blocks of N and non-N.  Output
                       format is 'base seq# beg end len'.  'N 84 483 485 2' means
                       that a block of 2 N's starts at space-based position 483
                       in sequence ordinal 84.  A '.' is the end of sequence
                       marker.

          --errors L N C P a.fasta
                       For every sequence in the input file, generate new
                       sequences including simulated sequencing errors.
                       L -- length of the new sequence.  If zero, the length
                            of the original sequence will be used.
                       N -- number of subsequences to generate.  If L=0, all
                            subsequences will be the same, and you should use
                            C instead.
                       C -- number of copies to generate.  Each of the N
                            subsequences will have C copies, each with different
                            errors.
                       P -- probability of an error.

                       HINT: to simulate ESTs from genes, use L=500, N=10, C=10
                                -- make C=10 sequencer runs of N=10 EST sequences
                                   of length 500bp each.
                             to simulate mRNA from genes, use L=0, N=10, C=10
                             to simulate reads from genomes, use L=800, N=10, C=1
                                -- of course, N= should be increased to give the
                                   appropriate depth of coverage

          --stats a.fasta
                       Reports size statistics; number, N50, sum, largest.

          --seqstore out.seqStore
                       Converts the input file (-f) to a seqStore file (for instance,
                       for use with the Celera assembler or sim4db).

NOTES

       Please  note  that  options are ORDER DEPENDENT. Sequences are printed whenever a SEQUENCE
       SELECTION option occurs on the command line. OUTPUT OPTIONS are not reset when a  sequence
       is printed.

       SEQUENCES are numbered starting at ZERO, not one!

EXAMPLES

       1. Print the first 10 bases of the fourth sequence in file 'genes':
            leaff -f genes -e 0 10 -s 3

       2. Print the first 10 bases of the fourth and fifth sequences:
            leaff -f genes -e 0 10 -s 3 -s 4

       3.  Print the fourth and fifth sequences reverse complemented, and the sixth
           sequence forward. The second set of -R -C toggle off reverse-complement:
            leaff -f genes -R -C -s 3 -s 4 -R -C -s 5

       4.  Convert file 'genes' to a seqStore 'genes.seqStore'.
            leaff -f genes --seqstore genes.seqStore

SEE ALSO

       README.leaff
       http://kmer.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LEAFF_User%27s_Guide
       http://kmer.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LEAFF_Programming_Example

                                           January 2016                                  LEAFF(1)