What it does
The MiRDeep2 Mapper module is designed as a tool to process deep sequencing reads and/or map them to the reference genome. The module works in sequence space, and can process or map data that is in sequence FASTA format. A number of the functions of the mapper module are implemented specifically with Solexa/Illumina data in mind.
Input
Default input is a file in FASTA format, seq.txt or qseq.txt format. More input can be given depending on the options used.
Output
The output depends on the options used. Either a FASTA file with processed reads or an arf file with with mapped reads, or both, are output.
Arf format: Is a proprietary file format generated and processed by miRDeep2. It contains information of reads mapped to a reference genome. Each line in such a file contains 13 columns: