def getUI(prog_name, args):
  """Build and return user interface object for this script."""
  longDescription = "Given a set of BED intervals, compute a profile of " +\
                    "conservation by averaging over all intervals using a " +\
                    "whole genome alignment to a set of relevent species." +\
                    "\n\n" +\
                    "Usage: " + prog_name + " [options] regions.bed " +\
                    "genome-alig species" +\
                    "\n\n" +\
                    "genome-alig can be either a single MAF file, or a " +\
                    "directory of MAF files. In the latter case, the " +\
                    "directory may also optionally contain index files for " +\
                    "the alignment files."
  shortDescription = longDescription

  ui = CLI(prog_name, shortDescription, longDescription)
  # gotta have two args -- MAF dir/file and BED regions.
  # Input by stdin not allowed
  ui.minArgs = 3
  ui.maxArgs = 4
  ui.addOption(Option(short="o", long="output", argName="filename",
                      description="output to given file, else stdout",
                      required=False, type=str))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="w", long="window", argName="size",
                      description="size of window to compute around each " +
                                  "interval; " +
                                  str(DEFAULT_WINDOW_SIZE) +
                                  " to use whole interval. " +
                                  "Default " + str(DEFAULT_WINDOW_SIZE),
                      required=False, type=int))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="e", long="extensions", argName="extension",
                      description="if genome-alig specifies a directory, " +
                                  "treat files with this extension as " +
                                  "alignment files.", required=False,
                                  type=str))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="i", long="index-extensions", argName="extension",
                      description="if genome-alig specifies a directory, " +
                                  "treat files with this extension as " +
                                  "index files for alignments.",
                                  required=False, type=str))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="f", long="fail-no-index",
                      description="fail if an alignment file without an " +
                                  "index is found; otherwise index-less " +
                                  "alignment files are loaded whole (which " +
                                  "might be slow if they're large, and " +
                                  "might require a lot of memory)",
                      default=False, required=False))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="m", long="missing", argName="strategy",
                      description="how to treat missing sequences in " +
                                  "blocks. Options are " +
                                  ", ".join([str(x.name) for x in
                                             MissingSequenceHandler]),
                                  required=False, type=str))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="s", long="species", argName="species",
                      description="consider only these species. Default is " +
                                  "all.", required=False, type=str))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="v", long="verbose",
                      description="output additional messages to stderr " +
                                  "about run (default: " +
                                  str(DEFAULT_VERBOSITY) + ")",
                      default=DEFAULT_VERBOSITY, required=False))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="h", long="help",
                      description="show this help message ", special=True))
  ui.addOption(Option(short="u", long="test",
                      description="run unit tests ", special=True))

  ui.parseCommandLine(args)
  return ui
Build and return user interface object for this script.