- m->mothurOut("The align.seqs command reads a file containing sequences and creates an alignment file and a report file.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The align.seqs command parameters are template, candidate, search, ksize, align, match, mismatch, gapopen and gapextend.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The template and candidate parameters are required. You may enter multiple fasta files by separating their names with dashes. ie. fasta=abrecovery.fasta-amzon.fasta \n");
- m->mothurOut("The search parameter allows you to specify the method to find most similar template. Your options are: suffix, kmer and blast. The default is kmer.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The align parameter allows you to specify the alignment method to use. Your options are: gotoh, needleman, blast and noalign. The default is needleman.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The ksize parameter allows you to specify the kmer size for finding most similar template to candidate. The default is 8.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The match parameter allows you to specify the bonus for having the same base. The default is 1.0.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The mistmatch parameter allows you to specify the penalty for having different bases. The default is -1.0.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The gapopen parameter allows you to specify the penalty for opening a gap in an alignment. The default is -2.0.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The gapextend parameter allows you to specify the penalty for extending a gap in an alignment. The default is -1.0.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The flip parameter is used to specify whether or not you want mothur to try the reverse complement if a sequence falls below the threshold. The default is false.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The threshold is used to specify a cutoff at which an alignment is deemed 'bad' and the reverse complement may be tried. The default threshold is 0.50, meaning 50% of the bases are removed in the alignment.\n");
- m->mothurOut("If the flip parameter is set to true the reverse complement of the sequence is aligned and the better alignment is reported.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The default for the threshold parameter is 0.50, meaning at least 50% of the bases must remain or the sequence is reported as potentially reversed.\n");
- m->mothurOut("The align.seqs command should be in the following format: \n");
- m->mothurOut("align.seqs(template=yourTemplateFile, candidate=yourCandidateFile, align=yourAlignmentMethod, search=yourSearchmethod, ksize=yourKmerSize, match=yourMatchBonus, mismatch=yourMismatchpenalty, gapopen=yourGapopenPenalty, gapextend=yourGapExtendPenalty) \n");
- m->mothurOut("Example align.seqs(candidate=candidate.fasta, template=core.filtered, align=kmer, search=gotoh, ksize=8, match=2.0, mismatch=3.0, gapopen=-2.0, gapextend=-1.0)\n");
- m->mothurOut("Note: No spaces between parameter labels (i.e. candidate), '=' and parameters (i.e.yourFastaFile).\n\n");
+ m->mothurOut("The make.group command reads a fasta file or series of fasta files and creates a groupfile.\n");
+ m->mothurOut("The make.group command parameters are fasta and groups, both are required.\n");
+ m->mothurOut("The make.group command should be in the following format: \n");
+ m->mothurOut("make.group(fasta=yourFastaFiles, groups=yourGroups. \n");
+ m->mothurOut("Example make.group(fasta=seqs1.fasta-seq2.fasta-seqs3.fasta, groups=A-B-C)\n");
+ m->mothurOut("Note: No spaces between parameter labels (i.e. fasta), '=' and parameters (i.e.yourFastaFiles).\n\n");