Is there a simple way to remove several bps at the end of each read in a BAM file?
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to really do it right one should also edit the alignment column but since that column which might specify different things at each alignment (continuous alignments, gapped, spliced etc) but if you just want to cut the reads and quality strings down (cutting from the right side and keeping left side) you could do this (all in one line):
Code:myfile="some_file.bam";mylen=20;cat <(samtools view -H $myfile) <(samtools view $myfile | while read line; do cutRead=`echo "$line" | cut -f10 | cut -c1-$mylen`; cutQual=`echo "$line" | cut -f10 | cut -c1-$mylen`; echo -e "$line" | awk -v cRead=$cutRead -v cQual=$cutQual 'BEGIN {FS="\t";OFS="\t"} {$10=cRead;$11=cQual;print $0}; done)
of course i 100% do not recommend using the output of this for any downstream analysis using software the accepts SAM files because of the fact that the alignment column (CIGAR annotation) is not edited so as far as any tools are concerted the alignments will still be full length. note that editing that value would require more code to interpret the alignment and edit it based on the trimming.
is there any chance you can trim the reads prior to alignment? that would be much less messy./* Shawn Driscoll, Gene Expression Laboratory, Pfaff
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA */
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