ciftools(1)
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NAME
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ciftools - tools for manipulating CIF files produced by the Illumina
sequencing platform

SYNOPSIS
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*ciftools* is a suite of several utilities for manipulating CIF files.
See their individual manpages for details.

*cifboot*::
	Produce bootstrap replicates of a CIF file.
*cifcat*::
	Concatenate CIF format files
*cifinfo*::
	Display information about CIF file.
*cifjoin*::
	Join several CIF files together into one, for example: merge
all the individual cycles in a run folder into a single CIF file.
*cifsplit*::
	Split a CIF into two by cycle. A run into two files containing the
paired ends for example.
*int2cif*::
	Convert the old-style INTensity format files into CIF files.
Some loss of precision will occur.

AUTHOR
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Written by Tim Massingham, tim.massingham@ebi.ac.uk

RESOURCES
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See <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~timm/ciftools/>.

COPYING
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Copyright (C) 2010 European Bioinformatics Institute. Free use of this 
software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
(GPL). See the file *COPYING* in the ciftools distribution or  
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> for details.

SEE ALSO
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cifboot(1), cifcat(1), cifinfo(1), cifjoin(1), cifsplit(1), int2cif(1)

