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Fuse Segments by vimalinx — Agent Skill

Name: Fuse Segments
Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Author: vimalinx

File contents

fuse-segments

Quick Start

Command: printf '10\t20\tx\n18\t25\ty\n40\t35\tz\n' | PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments
Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments
Full reference: See references/help.md for complete documentation

When To Use This Tool

Normalize start / end pairs where coordinates may be reversed.
Merge overlapping or directly adjacent segments into larger blocks.
Compute merged interval length as a final third column for downstream reporting.

Common Patterns

# 1) Fuse simple segments from a tab-delimited stream
printf '10\t20\tx\n18\t25\ty\n40\t35\tz\n' | \
  PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \
  /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments

10  25  16
35  40  6

# 2) Use as a cleanup step after generating interval tables elsewhere
upstream_command | \
  PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \
  /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments \
  > fused_segments.tsv

Recommended Workflow

Prepare a table whose first two columns are integer segment bounds.
Put the EDirect bin directory on PATH so sort-table can be resolved.
Pipe the segment table through fuse-segments and capture the merged output.
Confirm that reversed coordinates were normalized and that adjacent segments were intentionally collapsed.

Guardrails

This wrapper requires sibling EDirect helpers, especially sort-table; absolute-path invocation alone is not enough in a shell without the bio env on PATH.
It prefilters with grep '^[1-9]', so leading whitespace, zero, and non-digit first columns are silently ignored.
Only the first two columns matter after filtering; any third column is ignored.
Empty or filtered-away input can still emit the bogus sentinel row 0\t0\t1, so do not treat any output as automatically valid.

---name: fuse-segmentsdescription: Use when you need to merge simple tabular start/end segments into non-overlapping intervals inside EDirect-style pipelines.--- # fuse-segments ## Quick Start - **Command:** `printf '10\t20\tx\n18\t25\ty\n40\t35\tz\n' | PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments` - **Local executable:** `/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments` - **Full reference:** See [references/help.md](references/help.md) for complete documentation ## When To Use This Tool - Normalize start / end pairs where coordinates may be reversed. - Merge overlapping or directly adjacent segments into larger blocks. - Compute merged interval length as a final third column for downstream reporting. ## Common Patterns ```bash # 1) Fuse simple segments from a tab-delimited stream printf '10\t20\tx\n18\t25\ty\n40\t35\tz\n' | \ PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \ /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments ``` ```text 10 25 16 35 40 6 ``` ```bash # 2) Use as a cleanup step after generating interval tables elsewhere upstream_command | \ PATH=/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin:$PATH \ /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/fuse-segments \ > fused_segments.tsv ``` ## Recommended Workflow 1. Prepare a table whose first two columns are integer segment bounds. 2. Put the EDirect bin directory on `PATH` so `sort-table` can be resolved. 3. Pipe the segment table through `fuse-segments` and capture the merged output. 4. Confirm that reversed coordinates were normalized and that adjacent segments were intentionally collapsed. ## Guardrails - This wrapper requires sibling EDirect helpers, especially `sort-table`; absolute-path invocation alone is not enough in a shell without the bio env on `PATH`. - It prefilters with `grep '^[1-9]'`, so leading whitespace, zero, and non-digit first columns are silently ignored. - Only the first two columns matter after filtering; any third column is ignored. - Empty or filtered-away input can still emit the bogus sentinel row `0\t0\t1`, so do not treat any output as automatically valid.

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