name: picard_createsequencedictionary
description: Creates a sequence dictionary for a reference sequence.
keywords:
  - sequence
  - dictionary
  - picard
tools:
  - picard:
      description: |
        Creates a sequence dictionary file (with ".dict" extension) from a reference sequence provided in FASTA format, which is required by many processing and analysis tools. The output file contains a header but no SAMRecords, and the header contains only sequence records.
      homepage: https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/
      documentation: https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us/articles/360036712531-CreateSequenceDictionary-Picard-
      tool_dev_url: https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard
      licence: ["MIT"]

input:
  - meta:
      type: map
      description: |
        Groovy Map containing sample information
        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
  - fasta:
      type: file
      description: The reference fasta file
      pattern: "*.fasta"

output:
  - meta:
      type: map
      description: |
        Groovy Map containing sample information
        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
  - versions:
      type: file
      description: File containing software versions
      pattern: "versions.yml"
  - dict:
    type: file
    description: picard dictionary file
    pattern: "*.{dict}"

authors:
  - "@sateeshperi"
  - "@mjcipriano"
  - "@hseabolt"