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  • mendl7
    Member
    • Aug 2010
    • 10

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    Bowtie MD tag format reference

    Does anyone know of a good source for understanding the alignment description format of Bowtie's MD tag? I'm trying to work out a parser to give me a simple alignment of reference/read from this information. Thanks!
  • nilshomer
    Nils Homer
    • Nov 2008
    • 1283

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    Originally posted by mendl7 View Post
    Does anyone know of a good source for understanding the alignment description format of Bowtie's MD tag? I'm trying to work out a parser to give me a simple alignment of reference/read from this information. Thanks!
    You can take a look at the source code within SAMtools for creating the MD tag (bam_md.c) or within the PERL SAM module (http://search.cpan.org/~lds/Bio-SamT.../Bio/DB/Sam.pm). Both will show you how to recover the reference sequence using the MD tag and the cigar.

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    • mendl7
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      • Aug 2010
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      #3
      Excellent. Thanks for pointing out the sources they are in. Cheers.

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