Hi guys,
I have a quick question about SAM format and the NH tag.
From the Format specs: NH should contain "Number of reported alignments that contain the query in the current record"
What is it meant by "in the current record"?
I am aligning reads from a single ends file and I see that the same read aligns in more than one position (even on different contigs) and in the NH tag of the different alignments I get sometimes different values.
How is this possible?
Thanks in advance
I have a quick question about SAM format and the NH tag.
From the Format specs: NH should contain "Number of reported alignments that contain the query in the current record"
What is it meant by "in the current record"?
I am aligning reads from a single ends file and I see that the same read aligns in more than one position (even on different contigs) and in the NH tag of the different alignments I get sometimes different values.
How is this possible?
Thanks in advance