Mapping commands

# human-readable output
blasr reads.bas.h5  ecoli_K12.fasta -m 0

# SAM output with or without soft-clipping
blasr reads.bas.h5  ecoli_K12.fasta -sam
blasr reads.bas.h5  ecoli_K12.fasta -sam -clipping soft

# multiple threads
blasr reads.bas.h5  ecoli_K12.fasta -sam -clipping soft -out alignments.sam -nproc 16

# Faster, but less sensitive
blasr reads.bas.h5  ecoli_K12.fasta -sam -clipping soft -minMatch 15

References

Manual

https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr/wiki

Github

https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr/wiki/Blasr-Output-Format

Website

http://bix.ucsd.edu/projects/blasr/

Paper

http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-13-238