How to convert bam to bam.bai files

Question

[jain.harshika]

Hi,

I have some bam files and I want to convert them to bam.bai files. I am very new to programming and have used some R Bioconductor packages. I was wondering whats the code for using Rsamtools to index the bam files.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Chris Miller]

a) read this: A: Bam And Indexed Bam Files

b) from the shell, run "samtools index myfile.bam"