Picard

Owned by Simon Alexander, created
Last updated: Dec 21, 2022
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1 Overview | 2 Using | 2.1 Multicore

Overview

  • Picard: Picard is a set of command line tools for manipulating high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data and formats such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF.

Using

Use the module name picard to discover versions available and to load the application.

Run picard from the command-line to see all the available programs.

Multicore

Some of the picard programs can be run across multiple cores. Specifically look at a program's options, for example: call picard CrosscheckFingerprints -h and read details about the --NUM_THREADS:Integer option.