Provided by: sambamba_1.0.1+dfsg-2_amd64
NAME
sambamba-markdup - finding duplicate reads in BAM file
SYNOPSIS
sambamba markdup OPTIONS <input.bam> <output.bam>
DESCRIPTION
Marks (by default) or removes duplicate reads. For determining whether a read is a duplicate or not, the same `sum of base qualities´ method is used as in Picard https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/picard-metric-definitions.html.
OPTIONS
-r, --remove-duplicates remove duplicates instead of just marking them -t, --nthreads=NTHREADS number of threads to use -l, --compression-level=N specify compression level of the resulting file (from 0 to 9)"); -p, --show-progress show progressbar in STDERR --tmpdir=TMPDIR specify directory for temporary files; default is /tmp --hash-table-size=HASHTABLESIZE size of hash table for finding read pairs (default is 262144 reads); will be rounded down to the nearest power of two; should be > (average coverage) * (insert size) for good performance --overflow-list-size=OVERFLOWLISTSIZE size of the overflow list where reads, thrown away from the hash table, get a second chance to meet their pairs (default is 200000 reads); increasing the size reduces the number of temporary files created --io-buffer-size=BUFFERSIZE controls sizes of two buffers of BUFFERSIZE megabytes each, used for reading and writing BAM during the second pass (default is 128)
SEE ALSO
Picard https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/picard-metric-definitions.html metric definitions for removing duplicates.
BUGS
External sort is not implemented. Thus, memory consumption grows by 2Gb per each 100M reads. Check that you have enough RAM before running the tool. February 2015 SAMBAMBA-MARKDUP(1)