diff --git a/perl/1kgScripts/runCleaningPipeline.pl b/perl/1kgScripts/runCleaningPipeline.pl
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f38faf6a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl/1kgScripts/runCleaningPipeline.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+sub usage {
+ print "Usage: perl runCleaningPipeline.pl\n\t-i \n\t-odir