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Dynamically pass multiple input to Picard's MarkDuplicates (multiplexed data)

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To pass multiple BAM files to MarkDuplicates we use the following syntax:

java -jar picard.jar MarkDuplicates \
    INPUT=lane1.bam \
    INPUT=lane2.bam \
    OUTPUT=dedup.bam \
    METRICS_FILE=dedub_metrics.txt

However, this syntax doesn't requires us to know the number of inputs beforehand. This is not particularly practical. Is there no way this can be done dynamically, for example, some GATK functions take files containing a list of input files (but MarkDuplicates doesn't).


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