Picard

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Introduction

Picard is a set of command line tools for manipulating high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data and formats such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF. These file formats are defined in the Hts-specs repository. See especially the SAM specification (PDF) and the VCF specification (PDF).

Installed version

The currently installed version of Picard on the cluster is 2.9.0.

Using Picard on the HPC cluster

Documentation

More informations can be found on the official homepage. If you are looking for a command line overview, you can should look here.