Shruti Paniwala
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Samtools commands for bioinformatician !
By Shruti Paniwala 1795 days ago
## count mapped reads
samtools view -c -F 260 mapping_file.bam
### converting sam file into fasta
samtools fasta reads_mapped.sam > reads.fasta
### converting sam file into bam
# -b : output is bam
# -S : input is sam
# -o : output file name
samtools view -b -S -o sal_sej.bam sal_sej.sam
### viewing bam files (view command)
samtool view sal_sej.bam | less
### sort reads by flag specified and show them
# -f INT show flag matches
samtools -f 4 sal_sej.bam | less
# -F INT show reads excepting flag matches
samtools -F 4 sal_sej.bam | less
### count reads (-c) by flag specified
samtool view -c -f 4 sal_sej.bam
### count reads by quality value specified (-q) (>=)
# -q : minimal quality value
samtools view -q 42 -c sal_sej.bam
### sorting bam file by genome position
samtools sort sal_sej.bam > sal_sej_sorted.bam
### indexing sorted file
# ouput is file.bai
# always index sorted files
samtools index sal_sej_sorted.bam.bam
### identifying genome variants (mpileup command)
# -g : output is bcf (binary call format) file
# -f : use reference genome given
samtools mpileup -g -f sal_ref_sej.fasta sal_sej_sorted.bam.bam > sal_vars.bcf
### calling snp and indels
# -c : find snp
# -v : output only potential variants
bcftools view -c -v sal_vars.bcf > sal_vars.vcf
### note: new command is "call". type "bcftools" to see current version and commands
### calling snp and indels with no frequency threshold
# omit -v parameter
bcftools call -c sal_vars.bcf > sal_vars.vcf
### normalize (realign) indels
# -f : reference fasta, needed to left align and normalize
bcftools norm -f ./input_data/ref.fasta \
vars.vcf \
-o vars_indels_realigned.vcf
### show alignment
# first arg is sorted bam file
# second arg is reference
samtools tview sal_sej_sorted.bam.bam sal_ref_sej.fasta
### results into txt file
samtools depth /path/to/sorted_bam.bam > /path/to/coverage_results.txt
### note: returns count of depth at each position. input should be sorted
### count depth at each position and put it into a txt file
# -a : at all positions
samtools depth -a sorted_dupremoved.bam > depth.txt
### one liner to count mean depth
samtools depth -a sorted_dupremoved.bam | awk '{c++;s+=$3}END{print s/c}'
### one liner to count coverage breadth
samtools depth -a sorted_dupremoved.bam | awk '{c++; if($3>0) total+=1}END{print (total/c)*100}'
### flagstat
# output file has two columns: QC-passed reads and QC-failed reads
# and rows: total reads, duplicates, mapped.
samtools flagstat sorted_dupremoved.bam > flagstat.txt
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# try these recipies:
### convert BAM to FASTA:
samtools view filename.bam | awk '{OFS="\t"; print ">"$1"\n"$10}' - > filename.fasta
## converting BAM to SAM:
samtools view -h -o out.sam in.bam
## "samtools view -h <in.bam> > <out.sam>"
