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sambamba-merge - tool for merging several BAM files into one

Description

sambambamerge is used for merging several sorted BAM files into one. The sorting order of all the files
       must be the same, and it is maintained in the output file.

       SAM headers are merged automatically like in Picard merging tool.

Name

sambamba-merge - tool for merging several BAM files into one

Options

-t, --nthreads=NTHREADS
              Specify number of threads to use for compression/decompression tasks.

       -l, --compression-level=COMPRESSION_LEVEL
              Specify compression level of output file as a number from 0 to 9

       -H, --header
              Output only merged header to stdout in SAM format (e.g. for debugging purposes). Other options are
              ignored.

       -p, --show-progress
              Show progressbar in STDERR.  For more information on the original samtools MERGE behaviour,  check
              out the [samtools documentation](http://samtools.sourceforge.net/samtools.shtml

                                                  February 2015                                SAMBAMBA-MERGE(1)

Synopsis

sambambamergeOPTIONS <output.bam> <input1.bam> <input2.bam> [...]

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