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+<tool id="collapseTab" name="collapse tabular">
+  <description>files</description>
+  <command interpreter="python">collapseTab.py $input $key $max > $outfile </command>
+  <inputs>
+    <param name="input" format="tabular" type="data" label="Original file"/>
+    <param name="key" size="10" type="text" value="1,2,3" label="key column(s)" help="columns to define unique rows" />
+    <param name="max" size="10" type="text" value="5" label="for lines with identical key, keep the one with max value in this column" help="need to be numeric" />
+    </inputs>
+  <outputs>
+    <data format="input" name="outfile" />
+  </outputs>
+  <help>
+
+**What it does**
+
+Similar to 'Group' but returns the entire line.  
+
+  </help>
+</tool>