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"Auxilary data" in CSI index

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Katya ▴ 10

Sorry for question but does anybody know that does "Auxilary data" field mean in CSI specification? And consequently what does "Length of auxilary data" field mean? enter image description here

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Pierre Lindenbaum 161k

these are metadata (a free text area), and , as far as I can see in the code

https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/master/hts.c#L1808

it's not used elsewhere

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Thank you for help!

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