NAME

       gt-encseq-encode - Encode sequence files efficiently.

SYNOPSIS

       gt encseq encode sequence_file [sequence_file [sequence_file ...]]

OPTIONS

       -showstats
           show compression results (default: no)

       -ssp
           output sequence separator positions to file (default: yes)

       -des
           output sequence descriptions to file (default: yes)

       -sds
           output sequence description separator positions to file (default: yes)

       -md5
           output MD5 sums to file (default: yes)

       -sat
           specify kind of sequence representation by one of the keywords direct, bytecompress,
           eqlen, bit, uchar, ushort, uint32 (default: undefined)

       -dna
           input is DNA sequence (default: no)

       -protein
           input is protein sequence (default: no)

       -indexname
           specify name for index to be generated (default: undefined)

       -smap
           specify file containing a symbol mapping (default: undefined)

       -lossless
           allow lossless original sequence retrieval (default: no)

       -v
           be verbose (default: no)

       -help
           display help for basic options and exit

       -help+
           display help for all options and exit

       -version
           display version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Report bugs to <gt-users@genometools.org>.

                                            10/07/2012                        GT-ENCSEQ-ENCODE(1)