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+.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/mvdbeek/dedup_hash.svg?branch=master
+    :target: https://travis-ci.org/mvdbeek/dedup_hash
+
+dedup_hash
+----------------------------
+
+
+This is a commandline utility to remove exact duplicate reads
+from paired-end fastq files. Reads are assumed to be in 2 separate
+files. Read sequences are then concatenated and a short hash is calculated on
+the concatenated sequence. If the hash has been previsouly seen the read will
+be dropped from the output file.  This means that reads that have the same
+start and end coordinate, but differ in lengths will not be removed (but those
+will be "flattened" to at most 1 occurence).
+
+This algorithm is very simple and fast, and saves memory as compared to
+reading the whole fastq file into memory, such as fastuniq does.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+depdup_city relies on the cityhash python package,
+which supports python-2.7 exclusively.
+
+``pip install dedup_hash``
+