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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.47.14.
+.TH PAUVRE "1" "April 2020" "pauvre 0.1924" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+pauvre \- QC and genome browser plotting Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long reads
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+usage: pauvre [\-h] [\-v]
+.IP
+{browser,custommargin,marginplot,redwood,stats,synplot} ...
+.SS "optional arguments:"
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
+show this help message and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
+Installed pauvre version
+.SS "[sub-commands]:"
+.IP
+{browser,custommargin,marginplot,redwood,stats,synplot}
+.TP
+browser
+an adaptable genome browser with various track types
+.TP
+custommargin
+plot custom marginal histograms of tab\-delimited files
+.TP
+marginplot
+plot a marginal histogram of a fastq file
+.TP
+redwood
+make a redwood plot from a bam file
+.TP
+stats
+outputs stats from a fastq file
+.TP
+synplot
+make a synteny plot from a gff file, protein
+alignment, and partition file
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+The full documentation for
+.B pauvre
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
+.B info
+and
+.B pauvre
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info pauvre
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.