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+name: umitools_dedup
+description: Deduplicate reads based on the mapping co-ordinate and the UMI attached to the read.
+keywords:
+    - umitools
+    - deduplication
+tools:
+    - umi_tools:
+        description: >
+            UMI-tools contains tools for dealing with Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs)/Random Molecular Tags (RMTs)
+            and single cell RNA-Seq cell barcodes
+        documentation: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+        license: ['MIT']
+input:
+    - meta:
+        type: map
+        description: |
+            Groovy Map containing sample information
+            e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+    - bam:
+        type: file
+        description: |
+            BAM file containing reads to be deduplicated via UMIs.
+        pattern: "*.{bam}"
+    - bai:
+        type: file
+        description: |
+            BAM index files corresponding to the input BAM file.
+        pattern: "*.{bai}"
+output:
+    - meta:
+        type: map
+        description: |
+            Groovy Map containing sample information
+            e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+    - bam:
+        type: file
+        description: BAM file with deduplicated UMIs.
+        pattern: "*.{bam}"
+    - versions:
+        type: file
+        description: File containing software versions
+        pattern: "versions.yml"
+
+authors:
+    - "@drpatelh"
+    - "@grst"
+    - "@klkeys"
diff --git a/modules/umitools/extract/meta.yml b/modules/umitools/extract/meta.yml
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+name: umitools_extract
+description: Extracts UMI barcode from a read and add it to the read name, leaving any sample barcode in place
+keywords:
+    - umitools
+    - extract
+tools:
+    - umi_tools:
+        description: >
+            UMI-tools contains tools for dealing with Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs)/Random Molecular Tags (RMTs)
+            and single cell RNA-Seq cell barcodes
+        documentation: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+        license: ['MIT']
+input:
+    - meta:
+        type: map
+        description: |
+            Groovy Map containing sample information
+            e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+    - reads:
+        type: list
+        description: |
+            List of input FASTQ files whose UMIs will be extracted.
+output:
+    - meta:
+        type: map
+        description: |
+            Groovy Map containing sample information
+            e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+    - reads:
+        type: file
+        description: Extracted FASTQ files. |
+            For single-end reads, pattern is \${prefix}.umi_extract.fastq.gz. |
+            For paired-end reads, pattern is \${prefix}.umi_extract_{1,2}.fastq.gz.
+        pattern: "*.{fastq.gz}"
+    - log:
+        type: file
+        description: Logfile for umi_tools
+        pattern: "*.{log}"
+    - versions:
+        type: file
+        description: File containing software versions
+        pattern: "versions.yml"
+
+authors:
+    - "@drpatelh"
+    - "@grst"