NAME

       mbfa - Murasaki Binary FASTA format converter

SYNOPSIS

        mbfa [options...] [input] [input2 ...] #convert [input] and [input2 ...] to Muraaski Binary FASTA files

DESCPRIPTION

       Murasaki processes sequence data using a 2-bit format where each base is reprsented using 2 bits. There's
       a number of pre-existing formats that do similar things, however in particular Murasaki needs to know
       about the metadata that can't be expressed in just 2 bits (eg. where sequences of NNNNs are, sequence
       breaks when multiple sequences are included in a FASTA file, etc.), therefore the MBFA format includes
       this data as well. Ordinarily these files are generated automatically by Murasaki when first run on a new
       sequence.

       Because the file format is designed mesh closely with Murasaki, the actual file extension will vary to
       reflect your architecture. It will generally be some form of .mbfa[48][48] (e.g. ".mbfa88" (the default
       gcc build on an amd64)).

OPTIONS

       --info|-i
           Show metadata about each MBFA specified.

       --force|-f
           By  default  mbfa  will  skip  files  that  already  have  recent .mbfa files. This option forces the
           regeneration of these files.

       --fatal|-F
           Makes errors fatal. Ordinarily if you specify multiple files, mbfa will try to convert  all  of  them
           even  if  one fails emitting a warning. With --fatal it will stop and exit with an error if there's a
           problem.

       --fasta|-A
           Geneates FASTA output corresponding based on the MBFA data to stdout.

       --help|-h, --version|-V, --verbose|-V
           What you'd expect.

LICENSE

       GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3)

AVAILABILITY

       <http://murasaki.sourceforge.net>

AUTHOR

       Kris Popendorf <krisp@dna.bio.keio.ac.jp>

SEE ALSO

       murasaki(1), geneparse(1)

perl v5.10.1                                       2010-05-31                                            MBFA(1)