Bam file incomplete?

Question

[rse]

Hi,

I downloaded a bam file from FTP server and have a bam.part file.

What does bam.part mean?

Thank you

Regards

[rse]

Ok, thank you. I ran samtools quickcheck and it returns nothing. Does it mean that the file is ok?

[lakhujanivijay]

can you paste your command here ?

[rse]

The command is : samtools quickcheck <input_bam>

Answer 1

[lakhujanivijay]

It's a name of the intermediate file during the download. However, it seems that the download did not complete properly. You need to download it again and then check if the file is correct using samtools quickcheck

Answer 2

[rse]

Thank you...yes, i think so too. Will download it again. Cheers

[lieven.sterck]

Hi rse ,

you should move this 'answer' to a comment on the answer given by Vijay Lakhujani , as this is a response/reply to this post. The 'answer' posts are reserved to answer the originally asked question, not to answer to someone's post. This helps us to keep the thread logically organised.

thank you.