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.TH minimap2 1 "11 July 2017" "minimap2-2.0-r172-pre" "Bioinformatics tools"
.SH NAME
.PP
minimap2 - mapping and alignment between collections of DNA sequences
.SH SYNOPSIS
* Indexing the target sequences (optional):
.RS 4
minimap2
.RB [ -x
.IR preset ]
.B -d
.I target.mmi
.I target.fa
.br
minimap2
.RB [ -H ]
.RB [ -k
.IR kmer ]
.RB [ -w
.IR miniWinSize ]
.RB [ -I
.IR batchSize ]
.B -d
.I target.mmi
.I target.fa
.RE
* Long-read alignment with CIGAR:
.RS 4
minimap2
.B -a
.RB [ -x
.IR preset ]
.I target.mmi
.I query.fa
>
.I output.sam
.br
minimap2
.B -c
.RB [ -H ]
.RB [ -k
.IR kmer ]
.RB [ -w
.IR miniWinSize ]
.RB [ ... ]
.I target.fa
.I query.fa
>
.I output.paf
.RE
* Long-read overlap without CIGAR:
.RS 4
minimap2
.B -x
ava-ont
.RB [ -t
.IR nThreads ]
.I target.fa
.I query.fa
>
.I output.paf
.RE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Minimap2 is a fast sequence mapping and alignment program that can find
overlaps between long noisy reads, or map long reads or their assemblies to a
reference genome optionally with detailed alignment (i.e. CIGAR). At present,
it works efficiently with query sequences from a few kilobases to ~100
megabases in length at a error rate ~15%. Minimap2 outputs in the PAF or the
SAM format.
.SH OPTIONS
.SS Indexing options
.TP 10
.BI -k \ INT
Minimizer k-mer length [17]
.TP
.BI -w \ INT
Minimizer window size [2/3 of k-mer length]. A minimizer is the smallest k-mer
in a window of w consecutive k-mers.
.TP
.B -H
Use homopolymer-compressed (HPC) minimizers. An HPC sequence is constructed by
contracting homopolymer runs to a single base. An HPC minimizer is a minimizer
on the HPC sequence.
.TP
.BI -I \ NUM
Load at most
.I NUM
target bases into RAM for indexing [4G]. If there are more than
.I NUM
bases in
.IR target.fa ,
minimap2 needs to read
.I query.fa
multiple times to map it against each batch of target sequences.
.I NUM
may be ending with k/K/m/M/g/G. NB: mapping quality is incorrect given a
multi-part index.
.TP
.BI -d \ FILE
Save the minimizer index of
.I target.fa
to
.I FILE
[no dump]. Minimap2 indexing is fast. It can index the human genome in a couple
of minutes. If even shorter startup time is desired, use this option to save
the index. Indexing options are fixed in the index file. When an index file is
provided as the target sequences, options
.BR -H ,
.BR -k ,
.BR -w ,
.B -I
will be effectively overridden by the options stored in the index file.
.SS Mapping options
.TP 10
.BI -f \ FLOAT
Ignore top
.I FLOAT
fraction of most frequent minimizers [0.0002]
.TP
.BI -g \ INT
Stop chain enlongation if there are no minimizers in
.IR INT -bp
[10000].
.TP
.BI -r \ INT
Bandwidth used in chaining and DP-based alignment [1000]. This option
approximately controls the maximum gap size.
.TP
.BI -n \ INT
Discard chains consisting of
.RI < INT
number of minimizers [3]
.TP
.BI -m \ INT
Discard chains with chaining score
.RI < INT
[40]. Chaining score equals the approximate number of matching bases (exact if
not using
.BR -H )
minus base-2 logarithm gap penalty. It is computed with dynamic programming.
.TP
.B -X
Perform all-vs-all mapping. In this mode, if the query sequence name is
lexicographically larger than the target sequence name, the hits between them
will be suppressed; if the query sequence name is the same as the target name,
diagonal minimizer hits will also be suppressed.
.TP
.BI -p \ FLOAT
Minimal secondary-to-primary score ratio to output secondary mappings [0.8].
Between two chains overlaping over half of the shorter chain (controled by
.BR --mask-level ),
the chain with a lower score is secondary to the chain with a higher score.
If the ratio of the scores is below
.IR FLOAT ,
the secondary chain will not be outputted or extended with DP alignment later.
.TP
.BI -N \ INT
Output at most
.I INT
secondary alignments [5]. This option has no effect when
.B -X
is applied.
.TP
.BI -D \ FLOAT
Discard a chain if the fraction of matching bases over the length of
query/target sequences in the chain is
.RI < FLOAT
[0].
.TP
.BI -x \ STR
Preset []. This option applies multiple options at the same time. It should be
applied before other options because options applied later will overwrite the
values set by
.BR -x .
Available
.I STR
are:
.RS
.TP 8
.B ava-pb
PacBio all-vs-all overlap mapping (-Hk19 -w5 -Xp0 -m100 -D.05 -g10000)
.TP 8
.B ava-ont
Oxford Nanopore all-vs-all overlap mapping (-k15 -w5 -Xp0 -m100 -D.05 -g10000)
.TP
.B map10k
PacBio/Oxford Nanopore read to reference mapping (-Hk19)
.TP
.B asm1m
Long assembly to reference mapping (-k19 -w19)
.RE
.SS Alignment options
.TP 10
.BI -A \ INT
Matching score [2]
.TP
.BI -B \ INT
Mismatching penalty [4]
.TP
.BI -O \ INT1[,INT2]
Gap open penalty [4,24]. If
.I INT2
is not specified, it is set to
.IR INT1 .
.TP
.BI -E \ INT1[,INT2]
Gap extension penalty [2,1]. A gap of length
.I k
costs
.RI min{ O1 + k * E1 , O2 + k * E2 }.
.TP
.BI -z \ INT
Break an alignment if the running score drops too quickly along the diagonal of
the DP matrix (diagonal X-drop, or Z-drop) [400]. Increasing the value improves
the contiguity of the alignment at the cost of poor alignment in the middle
(e.g. caused by a long inversion).
.TP
.BI -s \ INT
Minimal peak DP alignment score to output [40]. The peak score is computed from
the final CIGAR. It is the score of the max scoring segment in the alignment
and may be different from the total alignment score.
.SS Input/output options
.TP 10
.B -Q
Ignore base quality in the input file.
.TP
.B -a
Generate CIGAR and output alignments in the SAM format. Minimap2 outputs in PAF
by default.
.TP
.B -c
Generate CIGAR. In PAF, the CIGAR is written to the `cg' custom tag.
.TP
.BI -t \ INT
Number of threads [3]. Minimap2 uses at most three threads when indexing target
sequences, and uses up to
.IR INT +1
threads when mapping (the extra thread is for I/O, which is frequently idle and
takes little CPU time).
.TP
.B -V
Print version number to stdout
.SS Miscellaneous options
.TP 10
.B --no-kalloc
Use the libc default allocator instead of the kalloc thread-local allocator.
This debugging option is mostly used with Valgrind to detect invalid memory
accesses. Minimap2 runs slower with this option, especially in the
multi-threading mode.
.TP
.B --print-qname
Print query names to stderr, mostly to see which query is crashing minimap2.
.SH OUTPUT FORMAT
.PP
Minimap2 outputs mapping positions in the Pairwise mApping Format (PAF) by
default. PAF is a TAB-delimited text format with each line consisting of at
least 12 fields as are described in the following table:
.TS
center box;
cb | cb | cb
r | c | l .
Col Type Description
_
1 string Query sequence name
2 int Query sequence length
3 int Query start coordinate (0-based)
4 int Query end coordinate (0-based)
5 char `+' if query/target on the same strand; `-' if opposite
6 string Target sequence name
7 int Target sequence length
8 int Target start coordinate on the original strand
9 int Target end coordinate on the original strand
10 int Number of matching bases in the mapping
11 int Number bases, including gaps, in the mapping
12 int Mapping quality (0-255 with 255 for missing)
.TE
.PP
When alignment is available, column 11 gives the total number of sequence
matches, mismatches and gaps in the alignment; column 10 divided by column 11
gives the BLAST-like alignment identity. When alignment is unavailable,
these two columns are approximate. PAF may optionally have additional fields in
the SAM-like typed key-value format. Minimap2 may output the following tags:
.TS
center box;
cb | cb | cb
r | c | l .
Tag Type Description
_
cm i Number of minimizers on the chain
s1 i Chaining score
s2 i Chaining score of the best secondary chain
NM i Total number of mismatches and gaps in the alignment
AS i DP alignment score
ms i DP score of the max scoring segment in the alignment
nn i Number of ambiguous bases in the alignment
cg Z CIGAR string (only in PAF)
.TE
.SH LIMITATIONS
.PP
At the alignment phase, minimap2 performs global alignments between minimizer
hits. If the positions of these minimizer hits are incorrect, the final alignment
may be suboptimal or broken due to the Z-drop heuristics. In addition, in the
event of a long insertion/deletion, minimap2 may split the long event into
a few smaller events. We will address these issues in future.
.PP
Minimap2 does not work well with Illumina short reads as of now.
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
miniasm(1), minimap(1), bwa(1).