Split synchronized file

Question

[taniamahmood38]

Hii, I have a synchronized file (output from popoolation2 tool using its feature mpileup2sync.jar). And i had merged 21 synchronized files of various breeds for downstream analysis. Now i want a single synchronized file from it. Please someone guide me how to extract/separate/split that merged sync file to get desired sync of only single breed. Kindly assist me.

Thanks in advance

[Ram]

Please try the following strategies:

1. Look at the sync file and understand what each column means (this post might help)
2. See how you can use awk or cut to extract specific columns from a delimited file
3. Figure out how to use the tools and strategies to get the result you need.

[taniamahmood38]

Thank you so much. I will surely try this.