wgsim(1)

short read simulator

Section 1 samtools bookworm source

Description

WGSIM

NAME

wgsim - short read simulator

SYNOPSIS

wgsim [options] <in.ref.fa> <out.read1.fq> <out.read2.fq>

OPTIONS

-e FLOAT

base error rate [0.020]

-d INT

outer distance between the two ends [500]

-s INT

standard deviation [50]

-N INT

number of read pairs [1000000]

-1 INT

length of the first read [70]

-2 INT

length of the second read [70]

-r FLOAT

rate of mutations [0.0010]

-R FLOAT

fraction of indels [0.15]

-X FLOAT

probability an indel is extended [0.30]

-S INT

seed for random generator [-1]

-h

haplotype mode

AUTHOR

The software was written by Heng Li <lh3@sanger.ac.uk>

This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage of the program.