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SamRemoveDuplicatedNames

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remove duplicated names in sorted BAM

Usage

This program is now part of the main jvarkit tool. See jvarkit for compiling.

Usage: java -jar dist/jvarkit.jar samrmdupnames  [options] Files

Usage: samrmdupnames [options] Files
  Options:
    --bamcompression
      Compression Level. 0: no compression. 9: max compression;
      Default: 5
    -h, --help
      print help and exit
    --helpFormat
      What kind of help. One of [usage,markdown,xml].
    -o, --out
      Output file. Optional . Default: stdout
    -R, --reference
      Indexed fasta Reference file. This file must be indexed with samtools 
      faidx and with picard/gatk CreateSequenceDictionary or samtools dict
    --report
      Only report duplicate names in the output bam file
      Default: false
    --samoutputformat
      Sam output format.
      Default: SAM
      Possible Values: [BAM, SAM, CRAM]
    --validation-stringency
      SAM Reader Validation Stringency
      Default: LENIENT
      Possible Values: [STRICT, LENIENT, SILENT]
    --version
      print version and exit

Keywords

See also in Biostars

Creation Date

20240405

Source code

https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/tree/master/src/main/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/tools/samrmdupnames/SamRemoveDuplicatedNames.java

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License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.

Citing

Should you cite samrmdupnames ? https://github.com/mr-c/shouldacite/blob/master/should-I-cite-this-software.md

The current reference is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

Lindenbaum, Pierre (2015): JVarkit: java-based utilities for Bioinformatics. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

Warning

this tool might break the valid pairs of the bam

Motivation

I got a BAM file with the same read duplicated. They have the same position, the same flags