chainSort

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Sort chains. By default sorts by score.Note this loads all chains into memory, so it is notsuitable for large sets. Instead, run chainSort onmultiple small files, followed by chainMergeSort.

Category

Generic

Usage

chainSort inFile outFile

Manual

This tool is part of UCSC Genome Browser's utilities.

Note that inFile and outFile can be the same
options:
-target sort on target start rather than score
-query sort on query start rather than score
-index=out.tab build simple two column index file

where is score, target, or query
depending on the sort.

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