-.TH tabix 1 "2 November 2009" "tabix-0.1.0" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH tabix 1 "11 May 2010" "tabix-0.2.0" "Bioinformatics tools"
.SH NAME
.PP
bgzip - Block compression/decompression utility
.RI [ file ]
.PP
.B tabix
-.RB [ \-0 ]
+.RB [ \-0lf ]
.RB [ \-p
.R gff|bed|sam|vcf]
.RB [ \-s
Column of start chromosomal position. [4]
.TP
.BI "-e " INT
-Column of end chromosomal position. [5]
+Column of end chromosomal position. The end column can be the same as the
+start column. [5]
.TP
.BI "-S " INT
Skip first INT lines in the data file. [0]
.B -0
Specify that the position in the data file is 0-based (e.g. UCSC files)
rather than 1-based.
+.TP
+.B -f
+Force to overwrite the index file if it is present.
+.TP
+.B -l
+List the sequence names stored in the index file.
.RE
.SH EXAMPLE
-grep -v ^"#" unsorted.gff | sort -k1,1 -k4,4n | bgzip -c > sorted.gff.gz;
+(grep ^"#" in.gff; grep -v ^"#" in.gff | sort -k1,1 -k4,4n) | bgzip > sorted.gff.gz;
tabix -p gff sorted.gff.gz;