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% September 2015

# NAME

fasta2DAM - build a Dazzler map database from fasta files

# SYNOPSIS

**fasta2DAM** [**-v**] *path:dam* ( **-f***file* | *input:fasta* ... )

# DESCRIPTION

Builds a map DB or DAM from the list of .fasta files following the map database name
argument, or if the **-f** option is used, the list of .fasta files in *file*.  Any .fasta
entry that has a run of N's in it will be split into separate "contig" entries and
the interval of the contig in the original entry recorded.  The header for each .fasta
entry is saved with the contigs created from it.

# SEE ALSO

**DAM2fasta**(1)
**daligner**(1)
