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Motivation
Use the multicore performance to improve processing of bioinformatics data
Resources
Ole Tange 2018 excellent book
[link to biostars handbook](link to be added)
man pages of parallel
Simple examples and syntax
Crate example files
seq 5 | parallel seq {} '>' example.{}
Supply one set of arguments to the parallel
Count lines example.1 example.2 … example.N
parallel wc -l ::: example.*
Supply two or more set of arguments to the parallel to process all combinations
parallel echo ::: red green ochre ::: fox parrot fish
Use the name of the argument in the command
parallel echo counting {}';' wc -l {} ::: example.*
Replacment strings (Ch5.2)
