Two identical reads in my bam files but with a different in CIGAR are mapped in a different location in IGV
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ManuelDB ▴ 110

I have extracted from a bam file one read and unclipped the CIGAR string. I have done this with this code

 import pysam


# Read IDs from file into a set
ids_to_extract = set()
with open("reads_names.txt", "r") as file:
    for line in file:
        ids_to_extract.add(line.strip())

# Open the original BAM file and a new file for output
infile = pysam.AlignmentFile("RACP1_4poolv7anddirect_A_FINAL_SORTED.bam", "rb")  # Use "rb" for reading a BAM file
outfile = pysam.AlignmentFile("unclipped_simulated_reads.bam", "wb", template=infile)

for read in infile:

    if read.query_name in ids_to_extract:
        # Get the original CIGAR tuples (operation, length)
        original_cigar_tuples = read.cigartuples

        if original_cigar_tuples:
            # Sum the lengths of match and soft-clip segments
            total_match_length = sum(length for operation, length in original_cigar_tuples if operation in [0, 4])  # 0 for 'M', 4 for 'S'

            # Other operations (insertions, deletions, etc.) are ignored in this sum
            new_cigar_tuples = [(0, total_match_length)]  # Replace with a single 'M' operation

            # Set the modified CIGAR tuples to the read
            read.cigartuples = new_cigar_tuples

        # Write the modified read to the output file
        outfile.write(read)

infile.close()
outfile.close()

These are the reads. First one is the original second is the extracted and unclipped read:

samtools view  RACP1_4poolv7anddirect_A_FINAL_SORTED.bam | grep "MN01972:51:000H5KYKL:1:11104:19018:10292"
MN01972:51:000H5KYKL:1:11104:19018:10292        0 chr2  208248363       60      24S102M *       0       0       CAAAATCACATTATTGCCAACATGACTTACTTGATCCCCATAAGCATGACGACCTATGATGATAGGTTTTACCCATCCACTCACAAGCCGGGGGATATTTTTGCAGATAATGGCTTCTCTGAAGAC  AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF/FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF    RG:Z:230824_MN01972_0051_A000H5KYKL_RACP1_4poolv7anddirect_A    UQ:i:0  AS:i:126
(RACP) [mdb1c20@cyan52 simulation_data]$ samtools view  unclipped_simulated_reads.bam | grep "MN01972:51:000H5KYKL:1:11104:19018:10292"
MN01972:51:000H5KYKL:1:11104:19018:10292        0 chr2  208248363       60      126M    *       0       0       CAAAATCACATTATTGCCAACATGACTTACTTGATCCCCATAAGCATGACGACCTATGATGATAGGTTTTACCCATCCACTCACAAGCCGGGGGATATTTTTGCAGATAATGGCTTCTCTGAAGAC  AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF/FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF    RG:Z:230824_MN01972_0051_A000H5KYKL_RACP1_4poolv7anddirect_A    UQ:i:0  AS:i:126

What I was expecting is to extract the read as seen in the original bam but when I open both bam in IGV, they differ.

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Why??

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ManuelDB ▴ 110

OK, I have learned something today. This only happens in forward reads. That soft-clipped is not due to bases that don't match with the ref. genome. This soft-clipped is done by (Samtools) Softclip and in the forward ones, this modifies the start coordinate of the reads. I have seen this by looking at the bam before the soft-clip is done. and it has 126M and 20 bases upstream. Never thought that.

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