samtools and bowtie2 alignment

Question

[qudrat.nii]

I am using samtools on sam file from bowtie2 alignment. Can somebody tell me what is -F 1804 in samtools option?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/explain-flags.html

[qudrat.nii]

Thank you very much

[GenoMax]

Also: https://www.samformat.info/sam-format-flag