Picard
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.