5 "uchime --input query.fasta [--db db.fasta] [--uchimeout results.uchime]\n"
6 " [--uchimealns results.alns]\n"
12 " Query sequences in FASTA format.\n"
13 " If the --db option is not specificed, uchime uses de novo\n"
14 " detection. In de novo mode, relative abundance must be given\n"
15 " by a string /ab=xxx/ somewhere in the label, where xxx is a\n"
16 " floating-point number, e.g. >F00QGH67HG/ab=1.2/.\n"
19 " Reference database in FASTA format.\n"
20 " Optional, if not specified uchime uses de novo mode.\n"
22 " ***WARNING*** The database is searched ONLY on the plus strand.\n"
23 " You MUST include reverse-complemented sequences in the database\n"
24 " if you want both strands to be searched.\n"
27 " Minimum abundance skew. Default 1.9. De novo mode only.\n"
28 " Abundance skew is:\n"
29 " min [ abund(parent1), abund(parent2) ] / abund(query).\n"
31 "--uchimeout filename\n"
32 " Output in tabbed format with one record per query sequence.\n"
33 " First field is score (h), second field is query label.\n"
34 " For details, see manual.\n"
36 "--uchimealns filename\n"
37 " Multiple alignments of query sequences to parents in human-\n"
38 " readable format. Alignments show columns with differences\n"
39 " that support or contradict a chimeric model.\n"
42 " Mininum score to report chimera. Default 0.3. Values from 0.1\n"
43 " to 5 might be reasonable. Lower values increase sensitivity\n"
44 " but may report more false positives. If you decrease --xn,\n"
45 " you may need to increase --minh, and vice versa.\n"
48 " Minimum divergence ratio, default 0.5. Div ratio is 100%% - \n"
49 " %%identity between query sequence and the closest candidate for\n"
50 " being a parent. If you don't care about very close chimeras,\n"
51 " then you could increase --mindiv to, say, 1.0 or 2.0, and\n"
52 " also decrease --min h, say to 0.1, to increase sensitivity.\n"
53 " How well this works will depend on your data. Best is to\n"
54 " tune parameters on a good benchmark.\n"
57 " Weight of a no vote, also called the beta parameter. Default 8.0.\n"
58 " Decreasing this weight to around 3 or 4 may give better\n"
59 " performance on denoised data.\n"
62 " Pseudo-count prior on number of no votes. Default 1.4. Probably\n"
63 " no good reason to change this unless you can retune to a good\n"
64 " benchmark for your data. Reasonable values are probably in the\n"
65 " range from 0.2 to 2.\n"
68 " Weight of an abstain vote. Default 1. So far, results do not\n"
69 " seem to be very sensitive to this parameter, but if you have\n"
70 " a good training set might be worth trying. Reasonable values\n"
71 " might range from 0.1 to 2.\n"
74 " Number of chunks to extract from the query sequence when searching\n"
75 " for parents. Default 4.\n"
78 " [Do not] use overlapping chunks. Default do not.\n"
81 " Minimum length of a chunk. Default 64.\n"
83 "--idsmoothwindow w\n"
84 " Length of id smoothing window. Default 32.\n"
87 " Minimum factional identity over smoothed window of candidate parent.\n"
91 " Maximum number of candidate parents to consider. Default 2. In tests so\n"
92 " far, increasing --maxp gives only a very small improvement in sensivity\n"
93 " but tends to increase the error rate quite a bit.\n"
97 " These options control how gapped columns affect counting of diffs.\n"
98 " If --skipgaps is specified, columns containing gaps do not found as diffs.\n"
99 " If --skipgaps2 is specified, if column is immediately adjacent to\n"
100 " a column containing a gap, it is not counted as a diff.\n"
101 " Default is --skipgaps --skipgaps2.\n"
105 " Minimum and maximum sequence length. Defaults 10, 10000.\n"
106 " Applies to both query and reference sequences.\n"
109 " Use local-X alignments. Default is global-X. On tests so far, global-X\n"
110 " is always better; this option is retained because it just might work\n"
111 " well on some future type of data.\n"
114 " Minimum fraction of the query sequence that must be covered by a local-X\n"
115 " alignment. Default 0.5. Applies only when --ucl is specified.\n"
118 " Do not display progress messages on stderr.\n"
121 " Write miscellaneous information to the log file. Mostly of interest\n"
122 " to me (the algorithm developer). Use --verbose to get more info.\n"
125 " In reference database mode, exclude a reference sequence if it has\n"
126 " the same label as the query. This is useful for benchmarking by using\n"
127 " the ref db as a query to test for false positives.\n"