NAME

       dexta - compress a set of .fasta files

SYNOPSIS

       dexta [-vk] <path:fasta> ...

DESCRIPTION

       Dexta  compresses a set of .fasta files (produced by either Pacbio's software or dextract)
       and replaces them with new files with a .dexta extension. That is, submitting G.fasta will
       result in a compressed image G.dexta, and G.fasta will no longer exist.

       With  the  -k  option  the  .fasta  source  is not removed. If -v is set, then the program
       reports its progress on each file. Otherwise it runs completely silently (good  for  batch
       jobs  to  an  HPC  cluster).  The  compression  factor is always slightly better than 4.0.
       Undexta reverses the compression of dexta, replacing the  uncompressed  image  of  G.dexta
       with  G.fasta.  By  default the sequences output by undexta are in lower case and 80 chars
       per line. The -U option specifies upper case should be used, and the characters per  line,
       or line width, can be set to any positive value with the -w option

       With  the  -i option set, the program runs as a UNIX pipe that takes .fasta (.dexta) input
       from the standard input and writes .dexta (.fasta) to the standard output.  In  this  case
       the -k option has no effect.

SEE ALSO

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

              info dexta

       should give you access to the complete manual.