Chapter 11 Engine parameters

--silent To reduce the amount of information printed to stdout.(By default, ATLAS writes out verbose information to stdout.)
--fixedSeed To set seed. Default = Done with random number generator.
> out.txt To redirect the progress report to a file (e.g. out.txt) and save it. Progress is not printed to stdout.
--logFile logfile_name.txt to write the progress report to a log file. Progress is printed to stdout as well. Can be used with --silent to suppress the amount of information printed to stdout. Or append &> logfile_name.txt to the command to write the progress report to a log file to avoid the log from being printed to stdout.
--out User_defined_name To write output files with tag/prefix ‘User_defined_name’ followed by the program generated suffix and file format.
--refDiv value To set the reference divergence to desired value. Default reference divergence = 0.01.
--baseFreq value_for_A,value_for_C,value_for_G,value_for_T To provide user defined base frequencies. Default base frequencies are 0.25 for all four bases.
--numReadGroups value To initialize different numbers of identical read groups. Default is 2.