Provided by: spoa_4.0.8-1_amd64 

NAME
spoa - SIMD partial order alignment tool
SYNOPSIS
spoa [options ...] <sequences>
DESCRIPTION
Spoa (SIMD POA) is a c++ implementation of the partial order alignment (POA) algorithm (as described in 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.3.452) which is used to generate consensus sequences (as described in 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg109). It supports three alignment modes: local (Smith-Waterman), global (Needleman-Wunsch) and semi-global alignment (overlap).
OPTIONS
<sequences> input file in FASTA/FASTQ format containing sequences Optional -m, --match <int> default: 5 score for matching bases -x, --mismatch <int> default: -4 score for mismatching bases -g, --gap <int> default: -8 gap penalty (must be negative) -l, --algorithm <int> default: 0 alignment mode: 0 - local (Smith-Waterman) 1 - global (Needleman-Wunsch) 2 - semi-global -r, --result <int> default: 0 result mode: 0 - consensus 1 - multiple sequence alignment 2 - 0 & 1 --version prints the version number -h, --help prints the usage
AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage of the program. spoa 1.1.3 June 2018 SPOA(1)