CAT_PACK(1)

📦 version 6.0.1, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

CAT_PACK(1) 💖 from the User Commands section, bestie, so let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

CAT_pack 🧬 is all about taxonomic classification of contigs and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the synopsis, bestie 🌸

usage: CAT_pack (download | prepare | contigs | bins | reads | add_names | summarise) [-v / --version] [-h / --help]

CAT_pack runs the Contig Annotation Tool (CAT), the Bin Annotation Tool (BAT), or the Read Annotation Tool (RAT). It's giving three annotators in one tool, no cap 🦋

✨ Required choice ✨

You have to pick one of these, periodt 👑

  • download — grabs and preprocesses data from NCBI nr or GTDB 🌈
  • prepare — builds the database files 🧚
  • contigs — kicks off CAT 🔥
  • bins — kicks off BAT 🍓
  • reads — kicks off RAT 💜
  • add_names — slaps taxonomic names onto CAT, BAT, or RAT output files ⭐
  • summarise — summarises a named CAT or BAT classification file 🎀

✨ Optional arguments ✨

These are extra, but lowkey iconic 💖

  • -v, --version — prints version information and exits 🫶
  • -h, --help — shows this help message and exits 🙈

That's the whole tea, bestie ✨ CAT_pack 6.0.1, shipped in November 2025, and this page is CAT_PACK(1) 🦋💅 Slay, periodt!

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