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package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers;

/**
 * Defines the ways walkers inputs can be partitioned before
 * being passed to multiple instances of the walker.
 */
public enum PartitionType {
    /**
     * Do not partition the walker inputs.
     */
    NONE,

    /**
     * The walker inputs can be chunked down to individual
     * reads.
     */
    READ,

    /**
     * The walker inputs can be chunked down to the
     * per-locus level.
     */
    LOCUS,

    /**
     * The walker inputs should be processed as complete
     * intervals defined -L or the reference contigs.
     */
    INTERVAL,

    /**
     * The walker inputs should always be processed as complete
     * contigs, even if there are multiple intervals per contig.
     */
    CONTIG
}
