BLAST_TOP_HITS(1)

💖 blast_top_hits — okay bestie, let's talk 💖

So like. This is the manual for blast_top_hits, which lives in section 1 of the manual pages (iykyk). It's a whole little program and honestly? It does one thing and it ATE. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

blast_top_hits — takes a blast or blat output file and trims it down so you only get the top hit for each query sequence. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blast_top_hits --input blast_out --mode blast <options>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: you've got a blast or blat output file and it is long. Like, every query has a million hits long. Not the move. 😭

blast_top_hits reduces that file down to just the top hit for each query sequence. Nothing else. Maximum main character energy, minimum clutter. ✨

Also important: this program belongs to seer(1) (Sequence Element (kmer) Enrichment Analysis). So like, it's part of a family. 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

💜 Required

• --input — the BLAST output file, and it's gotta be in -m 6/-outfmt 6 format. Or, alternatively, a BLAT .psl file. Either one works, bestie, but you do have to give it one. 🙈
• --mode — and this one is literally either blast or blat. Pick your fighter. 💅

🌈 Optional

• --full_query — turn this on and the entire query has to be reported as a match for it to show up in the output. No partial matches sneaking through, no cap. 👑
• -h, --help — shows you this help. That's it, that's the whole thing. Genuinely iconic behaviour. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution, and it can be used for any other usage of the program. We love a generous king. 🫶

No warnings, no bugs, no exit statuses in this one — the manpage is short and sweet and we're keeping it that way. Periodt. 💅

And that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 This was blast_top_hits version 1.1.2, dated March 2017, from the User Commands corner of the manual. Mwah. 💖 🌸 🦋