Extracting Paired-End Reads Sitting In Different Chromosomes
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Ian 6.1k

I have been mapping paired-end reads (SOLiD) and would like to extract mapped pairs that are located on different chromosomes from the SAM/BAM file. `

samtools flagstat actually reports the number of pairs on different chromosomes. Are there any simple methods of extracting them?

Thank you!

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export your bam as SAM and use awk to filter the result (something like

awk '($3!=$7 && $7!="=")'

). The SAM specification ( samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf ) says that the column $3 is the CHROMOSOME and the $7 is the chromosome for the mate

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Thanks - i played around with awk and regex to get what i wanted.

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Christof Winter ★ 1.0k

Here is a simple method:

samtools view -F 14 infile.bam | grep -v " = " > outfile.sam

The -F 14 gives you reads that are

  • are mapped
  • have a mate that is mapped
  • but are not mapped in a proper pair

Note that there are TAB characters left and right of the = sign. Try Ctrl-V [HTML] to enter them at the terminal.

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Caveat - this will include INTRA-chromosomal discordant pairs as well.

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No, since identical RNAME and RNEXT are excluded. Or am I missing something?

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I noticed -F, but if this relates to the second column of the SAM file, then it does not tally with the flags i have, e.g. 97 and 145 for the 50bp and 35bp reads respectively.

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-F 14 will not remove reads with flag 97 or 145. Have a look at http://picard.sourceforge.net/explain-flags.html

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A version that allows the reversion to bam includes the header:

samtools view -F 14 -h infile.bam | grep -v " = " > outfile.sam

reversion to bam:

samtools view -b outfile.sam > finalout.bam
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6.4 years ago

can be shortened to (including mapQ>5):

samtools view -F 14 -q 5 -h input.sam \
    | awk '$7 !~ /=/' \
    | samtools view -Sb - \
    > map_2_diff_chroms.bam
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