Commands

Every command prints its options with -h, e.g. gplace place -h.

Command

What it is for

Placing genomes

place

Place the genomes of one alignment on one reference package.

place_batch

Place many alignments at once, each reference package’s alignments together.

compare

Compare two jplace files, e.g. gPlace’s with pplacer’s.

pplacer tools, without installing pplacer

tog

Make a tree with your genomes added at their placements (guppy tog).

taxit

Build or check a reference package (taxtastic’s taxit create, check, info).

Setting up and checking

check_install

Check that gPlace computes exactly as pplacer on this computer.

test

Place bundled genomes and compare them with pplacer’s output.

benchmark

Find the fastest --cpus and estimate a job’s memory and time.

build_engine

Rebuild the compiled engine without reinstalling (advanced).