Is there a way to report the right-most end of an alignment in a bam file? The position given is the left-most part of the alignment, but I need to know where the right-end falls in the reference. I know this can be done with the CIGAR string, but I'm concerned that I don't fully understand how the CIGAR string works with regards to hard & soft clipping, as well as what its reporting with regards to chimeric alignments. I think it might be easy to get this wrong if I'm not careful, and if there is an already existing, robust & convenient tool or method I'd prefer using that.
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The easiest way to do this is to map with BBMap, using the "stoptag" flag, which will make it write an extra tag to each line prefixed by YS:i: which gives the read's stop location. I don't currently have a way to do that for existing sam/bam files, but I may incorporate it into reformat.
This is the code I use:
Code:public static int calcCigarLength(String cigar, boolean includeHardClip){ if(cigar==null){return 0;} int len=0; int current=0; for(int i=0; i<cigar.length(); i++){ char c=cigar.charAt(i); if(Character.isDigit(c)){ current=(current*10)+(c-'0'); }else{ if(c=='M' || c=='=' || c=='X' || c=='D' || c=='N' || c=='S'){ len+=current; }else if (c=='H'){ if(includeHardClip){len+=current;} }else if(c=='I'){ //do nothing }else if(c=='P'){ throw new RuntimeException("Unhandled cigar symbol: "+c+"\n"+cigar+"\n"); //'P' is currently poorly defined }else{ throw new RuntimeException("Unhandled cigar symbol: "+c+"\n"+cigar+"\n"); } current=0; } } return len; }
Code:public static String makeStopTag(int pos, int seqLength, String cigar, boolean perfect){ return "YS:i:"+(pos+((cigar==null || perfect) ? seqLength : -countLeadingClip(cigar, false)+calcCigarLength(cigar, false))-1); } public static int countLeadingClip(String cigar, boolean includeHardClip){ if(cigar==null){return 0;} int len=0; int current=0; for(int i=0; i<cigar.length(); i++){ char c=cigar.charAt(i); if(Character.isLetter(c) || c=='='){ if((includeHardClip && c=='H') || (SUBTRACT_LEADING_SOFT_CLIP && c=='S')){ len+=current; }else{ break; } current=0; }else{ current=(current*10)+(c-'0'); } } return len; }
Last edited by Brian Bushnell; 03-18-2015, 01:21 PM.
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Originally posted by jmartin View PostIs there a way to report the right-most end of an alignment in a bam file?
Save the script as addReadEndToBam.py (or whatever). It will print to stdout in BAM format.
Example usage:
Code:addReadEndToBam.py in.bam > out.bam # Example output alignment: M00886:29:000000000-A95CG:1:2103:5504:6001 89 LmjF.01 4 0 34M = 4 0 CCCTAACCCTAACCTTGACCCTAACCCTATCCCT FB0AA0AAB1BBBA11GFCGFAB1>B1>1>>>>> XT:A:R NM:i:2 SM:i:0 AM:i:0 X0:i:5 X1:i:0 XM:i:2 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:14C14A4 YS:i:37
Code:#!/usr/bin/env python import pysam import sys insam= sys.argv[1] samfile = pysam.AlignmentFile(insam, "rb") outfile = pysam.AlignmentFile("-", "wb", template=samfile) for aln in samfile: ys= aln.reference_end if not ys: ys= -1 aln.setTag('YS', ys) outfile.write(aln) samfile.close() outfile.close() sys.exit()
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