NAME¶

bowtie2-inspect-l - extracts information from a bowtie2 index

SYNOPSIS¶

bowtie2-inspect [options]* <bt2_base>

DESCRIPTION¶

Bowtie 2 version 2.5.0 by Ben Langmead (langmea@cs.jhu.edu, www.cs.jhu.edu/~langmea)

<bt2_base>

bt2 filename minus trailing .1.bt2l/.2.bt2l

By default, prints FASTA records of the indexed nucleotide sequences to standard out. With -n, just prints names. With -s, just prints a summary of the index parameters and sequences.

OPTIONS¶

-a/--across <int>

Number of characters across in FASTA output (default: 60)

-n/--names

Print reference sequence names only

-s/--summary

Print summary incl. ref names, lengths, index properties

-o/--output

Save output to filename (default stdout)

-v/--verbose

Verbose output (for debugging)

-h/--help

print this and message quit