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Fuse Ranges by vimalinx — Agent Skill

Name: Fuse Ranges
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: vimalinx

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fuse-ranges

CLI tool from the Entrez Direct (EDirect) package for fusing overlapping or adjacent ranges.

Quick Start

Command: printf '5\t1\t+\t3..8,8..10,15..13\n' | PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges
Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges
Reference: See references/help.md for full documentation

When To Use This Tool

Expand comma-separated start..end range lists and fuse overlaps per strand.
Collapse adjacent intervals too, not just strict overlaps.
Turn EDirect-style alignment summaries into strand / start / end / length blocks for later filtering or reporting.

Common Patterns

# 1) Fuse a single row containing multiple strand-specific ranges
printf '5\t1\t+\t3..8,8..10,15..13\n' | \
  PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \
  /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges

+   3   10  8
+   13  15  3

# 2) Use in a larger EDirect table pipeline
some_edirect_command | \
  PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \
  /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges \
  > fused.tsv

Recommended Workflow

Generate a four-column table where column 3 is strand and column 4 is a comma-separated range list like 3..8,8..10,15..13.
Put the EDirect bin directory on PATH so sort-table is available to the wrapper.
Pipe the table through fuse-ranges and capture the merged strand / start / end / length output.
Spot-check that adjacent intervals were merged the way you expect.

Guardrails

This wrapper depends on sibling EDirect tools such as sort-table; calling the absolute path alone can still fail with command not found.
It prefilters with grep '^[1-9]', so rows starting with 0, whitespace, or non-digits are silently dropped.
After that filter, only the strand column and the comma-separated range-list column are used; the first two fields are effectively ignored.
Empty or non-matching input can yield a bogus 0 0 1 row instead of a clean error, so validate outputs before using them downstream.

---name: fuse-rangesdescription: Use when you need to merge overlapping or adjacent strand-specific alignment ranges encoded as comma-separated `start..end` lists in EDirect tables.--- # fuse-ranges CLI tool from the Entrez Direct (EDirect) package for fusing overlapping or adjacent ranges. ## Quick Start - **Command:** `printf '5\t1\t+\t3..8,8..10,15..13\n' | PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges` - Local executable: `/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges` - Reference: See [references/help.md](references/help.md) for full documentation ## When To Use This Tool - Expand comma-separated `start..end` range lists and fuse overlaps per strand. - Collapse adjacent intervals too, not just strict overlaps. - Turn EDirect-style alignment summaries into strand / start / end / length blocks for later filtering or reporting. ## Common Patterns ```bash # 1) Fuse a single row containing multiple strand-specific ranges printf '5\t1\t+\t3..8,8..10,15..13\n' | \ PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \ /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges ``` ```text + 3 10 8 + 13 15 3 ``` ```bash # 2) Use in a larger EDirect table pipeline some_edirect_command | \ PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \ /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-ranges \ > fused.tsv ``` ## Recommended Workflow 1. Generate a four-column table where column 3 is strand and column 4 is a comma-separated range list like `3..8,8..10,15..13`. 2. Put the EDirect bin directory on `PATH` so `sort-table` is available to the wrapper. 3. Pipe the table through `fuse-ranges` and capture the merged strand / start / end / length output. 4. Spot-check that adjacent intervals were merged the way you expect. ## Guardrails - This wrapper depends on sibling EDirect tools such as `sort-table`; calling the absolute path alone can still fail with `command not found`. - It prefilters with `grep '^[1-9]'`, so rows starting with `0`, whitespace, or non-digits are silently dropped. - After that filter, only the strand column and the comma-separated range-list column are used; the first two fields are effectively ignored. - Empty or non-matching input can yield a bogus `0 0 1` row instead of a clean error, so validate outputs before using them downstream.

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