NAME
sambamba-index
- tool for building standard index files for BAM data
SYNOPSIS
sambamba index
[-p
|--show-progress
] [-n
|--threads
=NTHREADS] <input.bam> [<output.bai>]
DESCRIPTION
sambamba index
builds an index for a sorted by coordinate BAM file.
This step is required for effective region querying in most tools for working
with BAM data.
An index is by default written to the file with the same filename except
.bai
extension added to the end. The user can, however, override this default
by providing desired output filename explicitly as an optional command-line
argument.
OPTIONS
-p
,--show-progress
Show a wget-like progressbar in STDERR.
-t
,--nthreads
=NTHREADSNumber of threads to use.
EXAMPLES
Build index file example.bam.bai given a sorted BAM file example.bam:
$ sambamba index example.bam
Build index file at custom location showing progress:
$ sambamba index --show-progress example.bam /tmp/example.bam.bai