How can I get the names of bams that were merged

Question

[Rashedul Islam]

I have a single bam file which was created by merging few other bam files. How can I get the names of bam files that were used during merging?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Have you checked the headers (samtools view -H your.bam) to see if you have read groups and such that can help guide you?

[Rashedul Islam]

That was simple and worked. Command samtools view -H my.bam | grep '@RG'. Thanks!

[ATpoint]