MASH(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie so this is mash — the manual page for it, section 1 — and it's literally the fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash tool 💅 no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🧬✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mash <command> [options] [arguments ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mash is the main executable for the Mash software, periodt. 💖

here's the tea tho: the main executable doesn't do the actual work itself — all the real functionality is provided by the subtools, aka the 'commands'. it's giving manager energy, not main-character-who-does-the-work energy. 🙈

🌸 Commands 🌸

• bounds — prints out a table of Mash error bounds. just a cute little table. 📊
• dist — estimates the distance of query sequences to references. 🧭
• info — shows you information about sketch files. 🔍
• paste — takes multiple sketch files and makes a single sketch file out of them. glue stick behaviour fr fr. 🩹
• screen — figures out whether your query sequences live inside a bigger pool of sequences. 👀
• sketch — creates sketches, which are reduced representations made for fast operations. speed demon activity ⚡
• triangle — estimates a lower-triangular distance matrix. 📐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

mash-dist(1), mash-info(1), mash-paste(1), mash-screen(1), mash-sketch(1), mash-triangle(1) 🫶 go read your siblings' pages, they're all iconic too.

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this one's from 2019-12-13, and yeah it's the MASH(1) page — go forth and sketch responsibly 🌸🦋✨