Samtools: Get Alignment (No Overlap)
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Zhshqzyc ▴ 520

If a chromosome region is given, which command can get the sequence alignment without overlapping?

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Zhidkov ▴ 600

did you look on samtools FAQ? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/samtools/index.php?title=SAM_FAQ

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I looked at it but there are many samtools command options. I still don't understand it. For ex, IF position is chr21:38781803-38782933, then what is the command?

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From the samtools help or the samtools website:

samtools view BAMFILE chr2:1,000,000-2,000,000

If this does not do what you want, perhaps you can clarify your question a bit.

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The output contains the raw data with overlap. But I don't want overlap.

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don't forget to put in new bam file, so you have to add > new.bam

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You will need to write code to get reads that do not overlap other reads. I do not know of a simple tool that pulls out only reads that do not overlap other reads.

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Socan we convert .bam to .fasta file? Then we can use microsoft biology tools get the result simply? Microsoft biology tools can open a fasta file and get the alignment sequence.

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If the bam file is sorted, this shouldn't be hard - just output the first read, and drop the reads starting before its end. But why would you want this?

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Okay. So you meant using samtools sort -o in.bam out.prefix? How can I get the first read? The bam file is to big, 200gb. How long it will take?

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"samtools view BAMFILE | head -1" will give you the first read. I think that Ketil and I still have no idea what you want to do, though. Please edit your original question with quite a bit more detail.

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zhshqzyc: why don't you extract a smaller data set and experiment a bit with samtools? If you have illumina reads, you could use 'head -40000 data.fq > small_data.fq' to extract the first 10K reads. That should be a bit more manageable than your 200G file and help you work out what you want to do, and how to achieve it.

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