alignoth 0.2.0

A tool for creating alignment plots from bam files
alignoth-0.2.0 is not a library.

alignoth

A tool for creating alignment plots from bam files. The generated vega-lite plots are written to stdout per default.

Usage

alignoth -b path/to/my.bam -r path/to/my/reference.fa -g chr1:200-300 > plot.vl.json

Arguments

The following options are available when using bamboo:

argument short explanation default
bam_path -b The bam file to be visualized.
reference -r The path to the reference fasta file
region -g Chromosome and region for the visualization. Example: 2:132424-132924
highlight -h Interval that will be highlighted in the visualization. Example: 132400-132500
max-read-depth -d Set the maximum rows of reads that will be shown in the alignment plots 500
output -o If present, data and vega-lite specs of the generated plot will be split and written to the given directory
spec-output If present vega-lite specs will be written to the given file path
read-data-output If present read data will be written to the given file path
ref-data-output If present reference data will be written to the given file path

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