QLOB(1)

💖 QLOB(1) — qlob.pl, bestie 💖

okay so this is qlob.pl, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation part of your man pages (yes, that's the header up top — QLOB(1), section 1, user-contributed, perl, you know the vibe 🫶). Sit down, grab a boba, because this little script is genuinely iconic and you're gonna understand it in like two minutes. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

qlob.pl — run quick mursaki compare 🌈

(yes "mursaki", that's literally how it's spelled up there, no I will not be fixing it, we respect the source 💅)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

qlob.pl [options] {genome list...}

so qlob is a frontend to murasaki (it goes through qsub if qsub is available, slay 🧚). It does a whole little glow-up routine for you automatically:

• it generates an output name for you based on the input files ✨
• it sets a more reasonable memory limit 👑
• it runs the job 🔥
• and it generates dot-plot outputs 🌸

basically it's your main-character assistant. it handles the boring parts, you take the credit. periodt.

✨ Options ✨

so on top of the standard Murasaki options (go peek at murasaki --help for those, iykyk), qlob has some options of its own. here they all are, no skips, no crumbs:

• -P — uses an old pattern of 11111100100001111100000100101111 🎀
• --target=<hostname> — requests the job be run on hostname 📍
• -n|--name — name for the job (this is the one that allows overwriting of old output, so like… be aware bestie 🙈)
• -m|--mem — specifies a memory requirement to pass to qsub (default 4gb) 🧠
• --mpi=N — use MPI across N machines (this sets ppn=4 also, so it's doing two things, multi-tasking queen 👑)
• --myrinet — require myrinet nodes 🦋
• --kogfile=<file> — Run filter.pl to score alignment using file 🍓

not me pointing out that -n|--name is the "allows overwriting of old output" one — if you had output you loved, maybe don't reuse that name. just saying. 😭

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This program runs several sequences through murasaki. 💫

And when you run it on an hpc machine, it submits the job via qsub. that's it, that's the whole plot, and honestly? it's giving efficiency. 🌟

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okay final vibe check bestie: this page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-12, and it's filed under QLOB(1) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. love that for us. go run some genomes, you're gonna eat 💅💖🫶✨