diff --git a/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/function/scattergather/FixMatesGatherFunction.scala b/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/function/scattergather/FixMatesGatherFunction.scala
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+package org.broadinstitute.sting.queue.function.scattergather
+
+import java.io.File
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.Input
+
+class BamGatherFunction extends GatherFunction {
+  type GatherType = File
+
+  @Input(doc="Picard FixMateInformation.jar.  At the Broad this can be found at /seq/software/picard/current/bin/FixMateInformation.jar.  Outside the broad see http://picard.sourceforge.net/")
+  var picardFixMatesJar: String = _
+
+  @Input(doc="Compression level 1-9", required=false)
+  var picardMergeCompressionLevel: Option[Int] = None
+
+  def commandLine = "java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/broad/shptmp/queue -jar %s%s%s%s".format(picardFixMatesJar,
+    optional(" COMPRESSION_LEVEL=", picardMergeCompressionLevel), " VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT SO=coordinate OUTPUT=" + originalOutput, repeat(" INPUT=", gatherParts))
+}