X-Git-Url: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=samtools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=samtools.txt;h=41cabe5053986a44f415ae35981c0f61738a7996;hp=63e6a25ec72823931cda29bd2ffd9ddad745b2db;hb=016b50ab60e879a0b8f81cb76ce11ea360a03d4a;hpb=4a17fa7e1f91b2fe04ad334a63fc2b0d5e859d8a diff --git a/samtools.txt b/samtools.txt index 63e6a25..41cabe5 100644 --- a/samtools.txt +++ b/samtools.txt @@ -12,81 +12,222 @@ SYNOPSIS samtools index aln.sorted.bam + samtools idxstats aln.sorted.bam + samtools view aln.sorted.bam chr2:20,100,000-20,200,000 samtools merge out.bam in1.bam in2.bam in3.bam samtools faidx ref.fasta - samtools pileup -f ref.fasta aln.sorted.bam + samtools pileup -vcf ref.fasta aln.sorted.bam + + samtools mpileup -C50 -gf ref.fasta -r chr3:1,000-2,000 in1.bam in2.bam samtools tview aln.sorted.bam ref.fasta DESCRIPTION - Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate alignments in the BAM + Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate alignments in the BAM format. It imports from and exports to the SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) - format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows to retrieve + format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows to retrieve reads in any regions swiftly. - Samtools is designed to work on a stream. It regards an input file `-' - as the standard input (stdin) and an output file `-' as the standard + Samtools is designed to work on a stream. It regards an input file `-' + as the standard input (stdin) and an output file `-' as the standard output (stdout). Several commands can thus be combined with Unix pipes. Samtools always output warning and error messages to the standard error output (stderr). - Samtools is also able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP or - HTTP server if the BAM file name starts with `ftp://' or `http://'. - Samtools checks the current working directory for the index file and - will download the index upon absence. Samtools does not retrieve the + Samtools is also able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP or + HTTP server if the BAM file name starts with `ftp://' or `http://'. + Samtools checks the current working directory for the index file and + will download the index upon absence. Samtools does not retrieve the entire alignment file unless it is asked to do so. COMMANDS AND OPTIONS - import samtools import + view samtools view [-bchuHS] [-t in.refList] [-o output] [-f + reqFlag] [-F skipFlag] [-q minMapQ] [-l library] [-r read- + Group] [-R rgFile] | [region1 [...]] + + Extract/print all or sub alignments in SAM or BAM format. If + no region is specified, all the alignments will be printed; + otherwise only alignments overlapping the specified regions + will be output. An alignment may be given multiple times if + it is overlapping several regions. A region can be presented, + for example, in the following format: `chr2' (the whole + chr2), `chr2:1000000' (region starting from 1,000,000bp) or + `chr2:1,000,000-2,000,000' (region between 1,000,000 and + 2,000,000bp including the end points). The coordinate is + 1-based. + + OPTIONS: + + -b Output in the BAM format. + + -f INT Only output alignments with all bits in INT present + in the FLAG field. INT can be in hex in the format of + /^0x[0-9A-F]+/ [0] + + -F INT Skip alignments with bits present in INT [0] + + -h Include the header in the output. + + -H Output the header only. + + -l STR Only output reads in library STR [null] + + -o FILE Output file [stdout] + + -q INT Skip alignments with MAPQ smaller than INT [0] + + -r STR Only output reads in read group STR [null] + + -R FILE Output reads in read groups listed in FILE [null] + + -S Input is in SAM. If @SQ header lines are absent, the + `-t' option is required. + + -c Instead of printing the alignments, only count them + and print the total number. All filter options, such + as `-f', `-F' and `-q' , are taken into account. + + -t FILE This file is TAB-delimited. Each line must contain + the reference name and the length of the reference, + one line for each distinct reference; additional + fields are ignored. This file also defines the order + of the reference sequences in sorting. If you run + `samtools faidx ', the resultant index file + .fai can be used as this file. - Since 0.1.4, this command is an alias of: + -u Output uncompressed BAM. This option saves time spent + on compression/decomprssion and is thus preferred + when the output is piped to another samtools command. - samtools view -bt -o + + tview samtools tview [ref.fasta] + + Text alignment viewer (based on the ncurses library). In the + viewer, press `?' for help and press `g' to check the align- + ment start from a region in the format like + `chr10:10,000,000' or `=10,000,000' when viewing the same + reference sequence. - sort samtools sort [-n] [-m maxMem] + mpileup samtools mpileup [-Bug] [-C capQcoef] [-r reg] [-f in.fa] [-l + list] [-M capMapQ] [-Q minBaseQ] [-q minMapQ] in.bam [in2.bam + [...]] + + Generate BCF or pileup for one or multiple BAM files. Align- + ment records are grouped by sample identifiers in @RG header + lines. If sample identifiers are absent, each input file is + regarded as one sample. + + OPTIONS: + + -B Disable probabilistic realignment for the computation + of base alignment quality (BAQ). BAQ is the Phred- + scaled probability of a read base being misaligned. + Applying this option greatly helps to reduce false + SNPs caused by misalignments. + + -C INT Coefficient for downgrading mapping quality for reads + containing excessive mismatches. Given a read with a + phred-scaled probability q of being generated from + the mapped position, the new mapping quality is about + sqrt((INT-q)/INT)*INT. A zero value disables this + functionality; if enabled, the recommended value for + BWA is 50. [0] + + -e INT Phred-scaled gap extension sequencing error probabil- + ity. Reducing INT leads to longer indels. [20] + + -f FILE The reference file [null] + + -g Compute genotype likelihoods and output them in the + binary call format (BCF). + + -h INT Coefficient for modeling homopolymer errors. Given an + l-long homopolymer run, the sequencing error of an + indel of size s is modeled as INT*s/l. [100] + + -l FILE File containing a list of sites where pileup or BCF + is outputted [null] + + -o INT Phred-scaled gap open sequencing error probability. + Reducing INT leads to more indel calls. [40] + + -P STR Comma dilimited list of platforms (determined by @RG- + PL) from which indel candidates are obtained. It is + recommended to collect indel candidates from sequenc- + ing technologies that have low indel error rate such + as ILLUMINA. [all] + + -q INT Minimum mapping quality for an alignment to be used + [0] + + -Q INT Minimum base quality for a base to be considered [13] + + -r STR Only generate pileup in region STR [all sites] + + -u Similar to -g except that the output is uncompressed + BCF, which is preferred for piping. + + + reheader samtools reheader + + Replace the header in in.bam with the header in + in.header.sam. This command is much faster than replacing + the header with a BAM->SAM->BAM conversion. + + + sort samtools sort [-no] [-m maxMem] Sort alignments by leftmost coordinates. File .bam will be created. This command may also create tempo- - rary files .%d.bam when the whole alignment can- + rary files .%d.bam when the whole alignment can- not be fitted into memory (controlled by option -m). OPTIONS: + -o Output the final alignment to the standard output. + -n Sort by read names rather than by chromosomal coordi- nates - -m INT Approximately the maximum required memory. + -m INT Approximately the maximum required memory. [500000000] - merge samtools merge [-h inh.sam] [-n] - [...] + merge samtools merge [-nur] [-h inh.sam] [-R reg] + [...] Merge multiple sorted alignments. The header reference lists - of all the input BAM files, and the @SQ headers of inh.sam, + of all the input BAM files, and the @SQ headers of inh.sam, if any, must all refer to the same set of reference - sequences. The header reference list and (unless overridden - by -h) `@' headers of in1.bam will be copied to out.bam, and + sequences. The header reference list and (unless overridden + by -h) `@' headers of in1.bam will be copied to out.bam, and the headers of other files will be ignored. OPTIONS: - -h FILE Use the lines of FILE as `@' headers to be copied to + -h FILE Use the lines of FILE as `@' headers to be copied to out.bam, replacing any header lines that would other- - wise be copied from in1.bam. (FILE is actually in - SAM format, though any alignment records it may con- + wise be copied from in1.bam. (FILE is actually in + SAM format, though any alignment records it may con- tain are ignored.) + -R STR Merge files in the specified region indicated by STR + + -r Attach an RG tag to each alignment. The tag value is + inferred from file names. + -n The input alignments are sorted by read names rather than by chromosomal coordinates + -u Uncompressed BAM output + index samtools index @@ -94,70 +235,78 @@ COMMANDS AND OPTIONS .bai will be created. - view samtools view [-bhuHS] [-t in.refList] [-o output] [-f - reqFlag] [-F skipFlag] [-q minMapQ] [-l library] [-r read- - Group] | [region1 [...]] + idxstats samtools idxstats - Extract/print all or sub alignments in SAM or BAM format. If - no region is specified, all the alignments will be printed; - otherwise only alignments overlapping the specified regions - will be output. An alignment may be given multiple times if - it is overlapping several regions. A region can be presented, - for example, in the following format: `chr2', `chr2:1000000' - or `chr2:1,000,000-2,000,000'. The coordinate is 1-based. + Retrieve and print stats in the index file. The output is TAB + delimited with each line consisting of reference sequence + name, sequence length, # mapped reads and # unmapped reads. - OPTIONS: - -b Output in the BAM format. + faidx samtools faidx [region1 [...]] - -u Output uncompressed BAM. This option saves time spent - on compression/decomprssion and is thus preferred - when the output is piped to another samtools command. + Index reference sequence in the FASTA format or extract sub- + sequence from indexed reference sequence. If no region is + specified, faidx will index the file and create + .fai on the disk. If regions are speficified, the + subsequences will be retrieved and printed to stdout in the + FASTA format. The input file can be compressed in the RAZF + format. - -h Include the header in the output. - -H Output the header only. + fixmate samtools fixmate - -S Input is in SAM. If @SQ header lines are absent, the - `-t' option is required. + Fill in mate coordinates, ISIZE and mate related flags from a + name-sorted alignment. - -t FILE This file is TAB-delimited. Each line must contain - the reference name and the length of the reference, - one line for each distinct reference; additional - fields are ignored. This file also defines the order - of the reference sequences in sorting. If you run - `samtools faidx ', the resultant index file - .fai can be used as this file. - -o FILE Output file [stdout] + rmdup samtools rmdup [-sS] - -f INT Only output alignments with all bits in INT present - in the FLAG field. INT can be in hex in the format of - /^0x[0-9A-F]+/ [0] + Remove potential PCR duplicates: if multiple read pairs have + identical external coordinates, only retain the pair with + highest mapping quality. In the paired-end mode, this com- + mand ONLY works with FR orientation and requires ISIZE is + correctly set. It does not work for unpaired reads (e.g. two + ends mapped to different chromosomes or orphan reads). - -F INT Skip alignments with bits present in INT [0] + OPTIONS: - -q INT Skip alignments with MAPQ smaller than INT [0] + -s Remove duplicate for single-end reads. By default, + the command works for paired-end reads only. - -l STR Only output reads in library STR [null] + -S Treat paired-end reads and single-end reads. - -r STR Only output reads in read group STR [null] + calmd samtools calmd [-eubSr] [-C capQcoef] - faidx samtools faidx [region1 [...]] + Generate the MD tag. If the MD tag is already present, this + command will give a warning if the MD tag generated is dif- + ferent from the existing tag. Output SAM by default. - Index reference sequence in the FASTA format or extract sub- - sequence from indexed reference sequence. If no region is - specified, faidx will index the file and create - .fai on the disk. If regions are speficified, the - subsequences will be retrieved and printed to stdout in the - FASTA format. The input file can be compressed in the RAZF - format. + OPTIONS: + -A When used jointly with -r this option overwrites the + original base quality. - pileup samtools pileup [-f in.ref.fasta] [-t in.ref_list] [-l - in.site_list] [-iscgS2] [-T theta] [-N nHap] [-r - pairDiffRate] | + -e Convert a the read base to = if it is identical to + the aligned reference base. Indel caller does not + support the = bases at the moment. + + -u Output uncompressed BAM + + -b Output compressed BAM + + -S The input is SAM with header lines + + -C INT Coefficient to cap mapping quality of poorly mapped + reads. See the pileup command for details. [0] + + -r Compute the BQ tag without changing the base quality. + + + pileup samtools pileup [-2sSBicv] [-f in.ref.fasta] [-t in.ref_list] + [-l in.site_list] [-C capMapQ] [-M maxMapQ] [-T theta] [-N + nHap] [-r pairDiffRate] [-m mask] [-d maxIndelDepth] [-G + indelPrior] | Print the alignment in the pileup format. In the pileup for- mat, each line represents a genomic position, consisting of @@ -167,25 +316,25 @@ COMMANDS AND OPTIONS end of a read are all encoded at the read base column. At this column, a dot stands for a match to the reference base on the forward strand, a comma for a match on the reverse - strand, `ACGTN' for a mismatch on the forward strand and - `acgtn' for a mismatch on the reverse strand. A pattern - `\+[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' indicates there is an insertion - between this reference position and the next reference posi- - tion. The length of the insertion is given by the integer in - the pattern, followed by the inserted sequence. Similarly, a - pattern `-[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' represents a deletion from the - reference. The deleted bases will be presented as `*' in the - following lines. Also at the read base column, a symbol `^' - marks the start of a read segment which is a contiguous sub- - sequence on the read separated by `N/S/H' CIGAR operations. - The ASCII of the character following `^' minus 33 gives the - mapping quality. A symbol `$' marks the end of a read seg- - ment. - - If option -c is applied, the consensus base, consensus qual- - ity, SNP quality and RMS mapping quality of the reads cover- - ing the site will be inserted between the `reference base' - and the `read bases' columns. An indel occupies an additional + strand, a '>' or '<' for a reference skip, `ACGTN' for a mis- + match on the forward strand and `acgtn' for a mismatch on the + reverse strand. A pattern `\+[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' indicates + there is an insertion between this reference position and the + next reference position. The length of the insertion is given + by the integer in the pattern, followed by the inserted + sequence. Similarly, a pattern `-[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' repre- + sents a deletion from the reference. The deleted bases will + be presented as `*' in the following lines. Also at the read + base column, a symbol `^' marks the start of a read. The + ASCII of the character following `^' minus 33 gives the map- + ping quality. A symbol `$' marks the end of a read segment. + + If option -c is applied, the consensus base, Phred-scaled + consensus quality, SNP quality (i.e. the Phred-scaled proba- + bility of the consensus being identical to the reference) and + root mean square (RMS) mapping quality of the reads covering + the site will be inserted between the `reference base' and + the `read bases' columns. An indel occupies an additional line. Each indel line consists of chromosome name, coordi- nate, a star, the genotype, consensus quality, SNP quality, RMS mapping quality, # covering reads, the first alllele, the @@ -193,175 +342,212 @@ COMMANDS AND OPTIONS supporting the second allele and # reads containing indels different from the top two alleles. - OPTIONS: - + NOTE: Since 0.1.10, the `pileup' command is deprecated by + `mpileup'. - -s Print the mapping quality as the last column. This - option makes the output easier to parse, although - this format is not space efficient. + OPTIONS: + -B Disable the BAQ computation. See the mpileup com- + mand for details. - -S The input file is in SAM. + -c Call the consensus sequence. Options -T, -N, -I and + -r are only effective when -c or -g is in use. + -C INT Coefficient for downgrading the mapping quality of + poorly mapped reads. See the mpileup command for + details. [0] - -i Only output pileup lines containing indels. - + -d INT Use the first NUM reads in the pileup for indel + calling for speed up. Zero for unlimited. [1024] -f FILE The reference sequence in the FASTA format. Index file FILE.fai will be created if absent. + -g Generate genotype likelihood in the binary GLFv3 + format. This option suppresses -c, -i and -s. This + option is deprecated by the mpileup command. - -M INT Cap mapping quality at INT [60] + -i Only output pileup lines containing indels. + -I INT Phred probability of an indel in sequencing/prep. + [40] - -t FILE List of reference names ane sequence lengths, in - the format described for the import command. If - this option is present, samtools assumes the input - is in SAM format; otherwise it - assumes in BAM format. + -l FILE List of sites at which pileup is output. This file + is space delimited. The first two columns are + required to be chromosome and 1-based coordinate. + Additional columns are ignored. It is recommended + to use option + -m INT Filter reads with flag containing bits in INT + [1796] - -l FILE List of sites at which pileup is output. This file - is space delimited. The first two columns are - required to be chromosome and 1-based coordinate. - Additional columns are ignored. It is recommended - to use option -s together with -l as in the default - format we may not know the mapping quality. + -M INT Cap mapping quality at INT [60] + -N INT Number of haplotypes in the sample (>=2) [2] - -c Call the consensus sequence using MAQ consensus - model. Options -T, -N, -I and -r are only effective - when -c or -g is in use. + -r FLOAT Expected fraction of differences between a pair of + haplotypes [0.001] + -s Print the mapping quality as the last column. This + option makes the output easier to parse, although + this format is not space efficient. - -g Generate genotype likelihood in the binary GLFv3 - format. This option suppresses -c, -i and -s. + -S The input file is in SAM. + -t FILE List of reference names ane sequence lengths, in + the format described for the import command. If + this option is present, samtools assumes the input + is in SAM format; otherwise it + assumes in BAM format. -s together with -l as in + the default format we may not know the mapping + quality. - -T FLOAT The theta parameter (error dependency coefficient) + -T FLOAT The theta parameter (error dependency coefficient) in the maq consensus calling model [0.85] - -N INT Number of haplotypes in the sample (>=2) [2] - - - -r FLOAT Expected fraction of differences between a pair of - haplotypes [0.001] +SAM FORMAT + SAM is TAB-delimited. Apart from the header lines, which are started + with the `@' symbol, each alignment line consists of: - -I INT Phred probability of an indel in sequencing/prep. - [40] + +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ + |Col | Field | Description | + +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ + | 1 | QNAME | Query (pair) NAME | + | 2 | FLAG | bitwise FLAG | + | 3 | RNAME | Reference sequence NAME | + | 4 | POS | 1-based leftmost POSition/coordinate of clipped sequence | + | 5 | MAPQ | MAPping Quality (Phred-scaled) | + | 6 | CIAGR | extended CIGAR string | + | 7 | MRNM | Mate Reference sequence NaMe (`=' if same as RNAME) | + | 8 | MPOS | 1-based Mate POSistion | + | 9 | ISIZE | Inferred insert SIZE | + |10 | SEQ | query SEQuence on the same strand as the reference | + |11 | QUAL | query QUALity (ASCII-33 gives the Phred base quality) | + |12 | OPT | variable OPTional fields in the format TAG:VTYPE:VALUE | + +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ + Each bit in the FLAG field is defined as: - tview samtools tview [ref.fasta] + +-------+-----+--------------------------------------------------+ + | Flag | Chr | Description | + +-------+-----+--------------------------------------------------+ + |0x0001 | p | the read is paired in sequencing | + |0x0002 | P | the read is mapped in a proper pair | + |0x0004 | u | the query sequence itself is unmapped | + |0x0008 | U | the mate is unmapped | + |0x0010 | r | strand of the query (1 for reverse) | + |0x0020 | R | strand of the mate | + |0x0040 | 1 | the read is the first read in a pair | + |0x0080 | 2 | the read is the second read in a pair | + |0x0100 | s | the alignment is not primary | + |0x0200 | f | the read fails platform/vendor quality checks | + |0x0400 | d | the read is either a PCR or an optical duplicate | + +-------+-----+--------------------------------------------------+ - Text alignment viewer (based on the ncurses library). In the - viewer, press `?' for help and press `g' to check the align- - ment start from a region in the format like - `chr10:10,000,000'. +EXAMPLES + o Import SAM to BAM when @SQ lines are present in the header: + samtools view -bS aln.sam > aln.bam + If @SQ lines are absent: - fixmate samtools fixmate + samtools faidx ref.fa + samtools view -bt ref.fa.fai aln.sam > aln.bam - Fill in mate coordinates, ISIZE and mate related flags from a - name-sorted alignment. + where ref.fa.fai is generated automatically by the faidx command. - rmdup samtools rmdup + o Attach the RG tag while merging sorted alignments: - Remove potential PCR duplicates: if multiple read pairs have - identical external coordinates, only retain the pair with - highest mapping quality. This command ONLY works with FR - orientation and requires ISIZE is correctly set. + perl -e 'print "@RG\tID:ga\tSM:hs\tLB:ga\tPL:Illu- + mina\n@RG\tID:454\tSM:hs\tLB:454\tPL:454\n"' > rg.txt + samtools merge -rh rg.txt merged.bam ga.bam 454.bam + The value in a RG tag is determined by the file name the read is com- + ing from. In this example, in the merged.bam, reads from ga.bam will + be attached RG:Z:ga, while reads from 454.bam will be attached + RG:Z:454. - rmdupse samtools rmdupse + o Call SNPs and short indels for one diploid individual: - Remove potential duplicates for single-ended reads. This com- - mand will treat all reads as single-ended even if they are - paired in fact. + samtools mpileup -ugf ref.fa aln.bam | bcftools view -bvcg - > + var.raw.bcf + bcftools view var.raw.bcf | vcfutils.pl varFilter -D 100 > + var.flt.vcf + The -D option of varFilter controls the maximum read depth, which + should be adjusted to about twice the average read depth. One may + consider to add -C50 to mpileup if mapping quality is overestimated + for reads containing excessive mismatches. Applying this option usu- + ally helps BWA-short but may not other mappers. - fillmd samtools fillmd [-e] + o Call SNPs and short indels for multiple diploid individuals: - Generate the MD tag. If the MD tag is already present, this - command will give a warning if the MD tag generated is dif- - ferent from the existing tag. + samtools mpileup -P ILLUMINA -ugf ref.fa *.bam | bcftools view + -bcvg - > var.raw.bcf + bcftools view var.raw.bcf | vcfutils.pl varFilter -D 2000 > + var.flt.vcf - OPTIONS: + Individuals are identified from the SM tags in the @RG header lines. + Individuals can be pooled in one alignment file; one individual can + also be separated into multiple files. The -P option specifies that + indel candidates should be collected only from read groups with the + @RG-PL tag set to ILLUMINA. Collecting indel candidates from reads + sequenced by an indel-prone technology may affect the performance of + indel calling. - -e Convert a the read base to = if it is identical to - the aligned reference base. Indel caller does not - support the = bases at the moment. + o Derive the allele frequency spectrum (AFS) on a list of sites from + multiple individuals: + samtools mpileup -Igf ref.fa *.bam > all.bcf + bcftools view -bl sites.list all.bcf > sites.bcf + bcftools view -cGP cond2 sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.1.afs + bcftools view -cGP sites.1.afs sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.2.afs + bcftools view -cGP sites.2.afs sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.3.afs + ...... -SAM FORMAT - SAM is TAB-delimited. Apart from the header lines, which are started - with the `@' symbol, each alignment line consists of: + where sites.list contains the list of sites with each line consisting + of the reference sequence name and position. The following bcftools + commands estimate AFS by EM. - +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ - |Col | Field | Description | - +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ - | 1 | QNAME | Query (pair) NAME | - | 2 | FLAG | bitwise FLAG | - | 3 | RNAME | Reference sequence NAME | - | 4 | POS | 1-based leftmost POSition/coordinate of clipped sequence | - | 5 | MAPQ | MAPping Quality (Phred-scaled) | - | 6 | CIAGR | extended CIGAR string | - | 7 | MRNM | Mate Reference sequence NaMe (`=' if same as RNAME) | - | 8 | MPOS | 1-based Mate POSistion | - | 9 | ISIZE | Inferred insert SIZE | - |10 | SEQ | query SEQuence on the same strand as the reference | - |11 | QUAL | query QUALity (ASCII-33 gives the Phred base quality) | - |12 | OPT | variable OPTional fields in the format TAG:VTYPE:VALUE | - +----+-------+----------------------------------------------------------+ + o Dump BAQ applied alignment for other SNP callers: - Each bit in the FLAG field is defined as: + samtools calmd -bAr aln.bam > aln.baq.bam + It adds and corrects the NM and MD tags at the same time. The calmd + command also comes with the -C option, the same as the one in pileup + and mpileup. Apply if it helps. - +-------+--------------------------------------------------+ - | Flag | Description | - +-------+--------------------------------------------------+ - |0x0001 | the read is paired in sequencing | - |0x0002 | the read is mapped in a proper pair | - |0x0004 | the query sequence itself is unmapped | - |0x0008 | the mate is unmapped | - |0x0010 | strand of the query (1 for reverse) | - |0x0020 | strand of the mate | - |0x0040 | the read is the first read in a pair | - |0x0080 | the read is the second read in a pair | - |0x0100 | the alignment is not primary | - |0x0200 | the read fails platform/vendor quality checks | - |0x0400 | the read is either a PCR or an optical duplicate | - +-------+--------------------------------------------------+ LIMITATIONS - o Unaligned words used in bam_import.c, bam_endian.h, bam.c and + o Unaligned words used in bam_import.c, bam_endian.h, bam.c and bam_aux.c. - o CIGAR operation P is not properly handled at the moment. - - o In merging, the input files are required to have the same number of - reference sequences. The requirement can be relaxed. In addition, - merging does not reconstruct the header dictionaries automatically. - Endusers have to provide the correct header. Picard is better at + o In merging, the input files are required to have the same number of + reference sequences. The requirement can be relaxed. In addition, + merging does not reconstruct the header dictionaries automatically. + Endusers have to provide the correct header. Picard is better at merging. - o Samtools' rmdup does not work for single-end data and does not remove - duplicates across chromosomes. Picard is better. + o Samtools paired-end rmdup does not work for unpaired reads (e.g. + orphan reads or ends mapped to different chromosomes). If this is a + concern, please use Picard's MarkDuplicate which correctly handles + these cases, although a little slower. AUTHOR - Heng Li from the Sanger Institute wrote the C version of samtools. Bob + Heng Li from the Sanger Institute wrote the C version of samtools. Bob Handsaker from the Broad Institute implemented the BGZF library and Jue - Ruan from Beijing Genomics Institute wrote the RAZF library. Various - people in the 1000Genomes Project contributed to the SAM format speci- + Ruan from Beijing Genomics Institute wrote the RAZF library. John Mar- + shall and Petr Danecek contribute to the source code and various people + from the 1000 Genomes Project have contributed to the SAM format speci- fication. @@ -370,4 +556,4 @@ SEE ALSO -samtools-0.1.6 2 September 2009 samtools(1) +samtools-0.1.10 15 November 2010 samtools(1)