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USEARCH commands
usearch_global
Very fast search for high-identity top hit or hits (global alignments).
usearch_local
Very fast search for high-identity top hit or hits (local alignments).
ublast
Fast and sensitive search to low identities (local alignments).
search_global
Comprehensive search (global alignments).
search_local
Comprehensive search (local alignments).
cluster_fast
Clustering optimized for speed.
cluster_smallmem
Clustering optimized for reduced memory use.
maskfasta
Mask low-complexity regions.
derep_fulllength
Remove duplicated sequences (full-length matches).
derep_prefix
Remove duplicated sequences (prefix matches).
uchime_ref
Chimera filter using reference database.
uchime_denovo
Chimera filter amplicon sequences de novo.
pairs_local
Align consecutive pairs 1&2, 3&4 ... N-1&N (local).
pairs_global
Align consecutive pairs 1&2, 3&4 ... N-1&N (global).
allpairs_local
Pairwise align all vs. all (local).
allpairs_global
Pairwise align all vs. all (global).
sortbylength
Sort sequences by decreasing length.
sortbysize
Sort sequences by decreasing size=N; value in label.
makeudb_usearch
Create a UDB database from a FASTA file for usearch commands.
makeudb_ublast
Create a UDB database from a FASTA file for ublast command.
uc2fasta
The uc2fasta and uc2fastax commands are not supported in v6 (see
here for discussion
).
udb2fasta
Convert UDB database to FASTA.
udbinfo
Report UDB file header information.
udbstats
Report UDB index statistics.
findorfs
Find open reading frames (ORFs) in nucleotide sequences.
version
Show long name with version and platform.
See also:
Local clustering
Algorithms
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