NAME

       mash - fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

SYNOPSIS

       mash <command> [options] [arguments ...]

DESCRIPTION

       mash is the main executable for the Mash software. The actual functionality is provided by the subtools
       ('commands'):

   Commands
       bounds
           Print a table of Mash error bounds.

       dist
           Estimate the distance of query sequences to references.

       info
           Display information about sketch files.

       paste
           Create a single sketch file from multiple sketch files.

       screen
           Determine whether query sequences are within a larger pool of sequences.

       sketch
           Create sketches (reduced representations for fast operations).

SEE ALSO

       mash-dist(1), mash-info(1), mash-paste(1), mash-screen(1), mash-sketch(1)

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