Question

Soft Clipping Position

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10.6 years ago

Nicolas Rosewick 11k

Hi,

How can I know the position and the length of soft-clipped nucleotides in my aligned reads (I used bowtie2 in local mode but the idea will be the same for other aligner). So from the sam file.

I put a little picture to explain more easily :

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Thanks

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 10.6 years ago by Zev.Kronenberg 12k • written 10.6 years ago by Nicolas Rosewick 11k

score 3 · Answer 1 · 2013-09-16

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10.6 years ago

Zev.Kronenberg 12k

The answer you are looking for is in the SAM specification. The cigar string contains the information. Look for 'S' in the cigar string.

Nice picture.

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I checked in SAM spec and indeed I have to filter by cigar flag. Thanks a lot

ADD REPLY • link 10.6 years ago by Nicolas Rosewick 11k