--- name: "mbfa-mpi" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "murasaki-mpi" version: "1.68.6-14+b1" release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/mbfa-mpi" --- # mbfa-mpi(1) Murasaki Binary FASTA format converter ## NAME mbfa - Murasaki Binary FASTA format converter ## SYNOPSIS ``` mbfa [options...] [input] [input2 ...] #convert [input] and [input2 ...] to Muraaski Binary FASTA files ``` ## DESCPRIPTION Murasaki processes sequence data using a 2-bit format where each base is reprsented using 2 bits. There's a number of pre-existing formats that do similar things, however in particular Murasaki needs to know about the metadata that can't be expressed in just 2 bits (eg. where sequences of NNNNs are, sequence breaks when multiple sequences are included in a FASTA file, etc.), therefore the MBFA format includes this data as well. Ordinarily these files are generated automatically by Murasaki when first run on a new sequence. Because the file format is designed mesh closely with Murasaki, the actual file extension will vary to reflect your architecture. It will generally be some form of .mbfa\[48\]\[48\] (e.g. `".mbfa88"` (the default gcc build on an amd64)). ## OPTIONS - \--info\|-i Show metadata about each MBFA specified. - \--force\|-f By default **mbfa** will skip files that already have recent .mbfa files. This option forces the regeneration of these files. - \--fatal\|-F Makes errors fatal. Ordinarily if you specify multiple files, mbfa will try to convert all of them even if one fails emitting a warning. With --fatal it will stop and exit with an error if there's a problem. - \--fasta\|-A Geneates FASTA output corresponding based on the MBFA data to stdout. - \--help\|-h, --version\|-V, --verbose\|-V What you'd expect. ## LICENSE GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3) ## AVAILABILITY \ ## AUTHOR Kris Popendorf \ ## SEE ALSO [*murasaki*(1)](/murasaki/1.md), [*geneparse*(1)](/geneparse/1.md)