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GENERAND(1)		     General Commands Manual		     GENERAND(1)

NAME
     generand - Generate random genomics data in various formats

SYNOPSIS
     generand fasta sequences sequence-length
     generand fastq sequences sequence-length
     generand sam chromosomes alignments-per-chromosome sequence-length
     generand vcf chromosomes calls-per-chromosome samples

PURPOSE
     generand  is  a  simple  program  to  rapidly generate random genomics data
     streams in common formats such as FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, and VCF.

     This may be useful for generating very short examples for academic purposes
     or large streams for testing and benchmarking genomics programs.

DESCRIPTION
     generand fast[aq] sequences sequence-length  generates  a	FASTA  or  FASTQ
     stream of "sequences" sequences, each of length "sequence-length".  The se-
     quence  content  is random with a uniform distribution of bases, so that GC
     content should be very close to 50%.

     PHRED scores in FASTQ streams are generated in blocks of equal  scores  and
     are  mostly  high-quality.  The last few scores are lower quality and inde-
     pendent to simulate Illumina sequencing, where quality tends to  drop  near
     the end of each read.

     generand  sam  chromosomes alignments-per-chromosome sequence-length gener-
     ates a SAM stream with chromosomes * alignments-per-chromosome total align-
     ments.  It outputs increasing indexes for QNAME  and  CHROM,  randomly  in-
     creasing  POS, random QUAL scores, and random sequences and PHRED scores as
     stated for FASTQ above.

     generand vcf  chromosomes	calls-per-chromosome  samples  generates  a  VCF
     stream  with  chromosomes * calls-per-chromosome calls.  It outputs chromo-
     somes with increasing indexes, randomly increasing  POS,  uniformly  random
     REF  and  ALT,  uniformly random QUAL scores, and random sample columns in-
     cluding GT (genotype), AD (allelic depth) and DP (depth).	REF  counts  are
     always >= ALT counts in the AD data and DP = REF count + ALT count.

SEE ALSO
     bcftools, fastqc, samtools, vcftools

AUTHOR
     J. Bacon

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