NAME

       samtools dict - create a sequence dictionary file from a fasta file

SYNOPSIS

       samtools dict ref.fasta|ref.fasta.gz

DESCRIPTION

       Create a sequence dictionary file from a fasta file.

OPTIONS

       -a, --assembly STR
                  Specify the assembly for the AS tag.

       -H, --no-header
                  Do not print the @HD header line.

       -o, --output FILE
                  Output to FILE [stdout].

       -s, --species STR
                  Specify the species for the SP tag.

       -u, --uri STR
                  Specify  the  URI  for  the  UR tag. Defaults to the absolute path of ref.fasta
                  unless reading from stdin.

AUTHOR

       Written by Shane McCarthy from the Sanger Institute.

SEE ALSO

       samtools(1), bcftools(1), sam(5), tabix(1)

       Samtools website: <http://www.htslib.org/>
       File format specification of SAM/BAM,CRAM,VCF/BCF: <http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs>
       Samtools latest source: <https://github.com/samtools/samtools>
       HTSlib latest source: <https://github.com/samtools/htslib>
       Bcftools website: <http://samtools.github.io/bcftools>