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NAME
megahit - ultra-fast and memory-efficient meta-genome assembler
DESCRIPTION
MEGAHIT v1.2.8
contact: Dinghua Li <voutcn@gmail.com>
Usage:
megahit [options] {-1 <pe1> -2 <pe2> | --12 <pe12> | -r <se>} [-o <out_dir>]
Input options that can be specified for multiple times (supporting plain text and gz/bz2
extensions)
-1 <pe1> comma-separated list of fasta/q paired-end #1 files, paired with files in <pe2>
-2 <pe2> comma-separated list of fasta/q paired-end #2 files, paired with files in <pe1>
--12 <pe12> comma-separated list of interleaved fasta/q paired-end files
-r/--read
<se> comma-separated list of fasta/q single-end files
Optional Arguments:
Basic assembly options:
--min-count
<int> minimum multiplicity for filtering (k_min+1)-mers [2]
--k-list
<int,int,..> comma-separated list of kmer size all must be odd, in the range 15-255, increment
<= 28) [21,29,39,59,79,99,119,141]
Another way to set --k-list (overrides --k-list if one of them set):
--k-min
<int> minimum kmer size (<= 255), must be odd number [21]
--k-max
<int> maximum kmer size (<= 255), must be odd number [141]
--k-step
<int> increment of kmer size of each iteration (<= 28), must be even number [12]
Advanced assembly options:
--no-mercy
do not add mercy kmers
--bubble-level
<int> intensity of bubble merging (0-2), 0 to disable [2]
--merge-level
<l,s> merge complex bubbles of length <= l*kmer_size and similarity >= s [20,0.95]
--prune-level
<int> strength of low depth pruning (0-3) [2]
--prune-depth
<int> remove unitigs with avg kmer depth less than this value [2]
--disconnect-ratio
<float> disconnect unitigs if its depth is less than this ratio times the total depth of
itself and its siblings [0.1]
--low-local-ratio
<float> remove unitigs if its depth is less than this ratio times the average depth of the
neighborhoods [0.2]
--max-tip-len
<int> remove tips less than this value [2*k]
--cleaning-rounds
<int> number of rounds for graph cleanning [5]
--no-local
disable local assembly
--kmin-1pass
use 1pass mode to build SdBG of k_min
Presets parameters:
--presets
<str> override a group of parameters; possible values: meta-sensitive: '--min-count 1
--k-list 21,29,39,49,...,129,141' meta-large: '--k-min 27 --k-max 127 --k-step 10' (large &
complex metagenomes, like soil)
Hardware options:
-m/--memory
<float> max memory in byte to be used in SdBG construction (if set between 0-1, fraction of
the machine's total memory) [0.9]
--mem-flag
<int> SdBG builder memory mode. 0: minimum; 1: moderate; others: use all memory specified
by '-m/--memory' [1]
-t/--num-cpu-threads
<int> number of CPU threads [# of logical processors]
--no-hw-accel
run MEGAHIT without BMI2 and POPCNT hardware instructions
Output options:
-o/--out-dir
<string> output directory [./megahit_out]
--out-prefix
<string> output prefix (the contig file will be OUT_DIR/OUT_PREFIX.contigs.fa)
--min-contig-len
<int> minimum length of contigs to output [200]
--keep-tmp-files
keep all temporary files
--tmp-dir
<string> set temp directory
Other Arguments:
--continue
continue a MEGAHIT run from its last available check point. please set the output directory
correctly when using this option.
--test run MEGAHIT on a toy test dataset
-h/--help
print the usage message
-v/--version
print version
AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Shayan Doust for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage
of the program.
megahit 1.2.8 October 2019 MEGAHIT(1)