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srf_index_hash(1)		  Staden io_lib 	       srf_index_hash(1)

NAME
     srf_index_hash - Adds a hash-table index to an SRF file.

SYNOPSIS
     srf_index_hash  [-c] srf_archive

DESCRIPTION
     srf_index_hash  adds and index to an SRF file or replaces an existing index
     with a new one. In the case of concatenated SRF files only the index at the
     end of a file will be replaced, but internal indices will not be  consulted
     by SRF tools.

     The index is a hash table indexing the sequence names only. The name itself
     does  not	appear	in the index, rather the top 7-bits of a 64-bit hash key
     are held in the index along with N-bits used to determine the hash  bucket.
     This reduces the index size to around 10-15 bytes per sequence.

OPTIONS
     -c     Check  only.  This	requests that the index is not produced, but the
	    checks performed during the creation of an index  (such  as  looking
	    for duplicate sequence names) are still performed.

AUTHOR
     James Bonfield, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

				  September 29		       srf_index_hash(1)

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