What is the best way to convert rna-seq sam/bam files to .wig files? I've come across a few possibilities: deeptools bamcoverage, samtools pileup, samtools depth, bedtools genomecov, igvtools count. Can any of these properly deal with the stranded, spliced, paired-end reads usually generated by rna-seq?
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If you can't find a prewritten tool then you can do this with either pysam using a pileup or the htslib C API. If you're familiar with either of those then this won't be too bade to write, but if not it'll be a bit daunting. If I have a chance this weekend then I'll see if I can just quickly code something, though the odds of me having a half hour to write and test something before Monday is relatively low.
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Since I can foresee needing something like this at some point anyway, here's a quick C implementation using htslib (the basis for samtools): https://github.com/dpryan79/Answers/...Qanswers_48599
If you clone that repo, switch to the SEQanswers_48599 directory and type "make", you'll get a bam2wig program that should do what you want. You can filter by MAPQ and phred scores if you want and you should be able to set how the strand is determined (the default is for dUTP-based libraries, which are the most common). This has not been tested other to ensure that it actually runs, so have a look at the output in IGV and ensure it matches the raw data.
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Originally posted by dpryan View PostSince I can foresee needing something like this at some point anyway, here's a quick C implementation using htslib (the basis for samtools): https://github.com/dpryan79/Answers/...Qanswers_48599
thanks for the code, I used it as a template for my own implementation.
I have a question regarding your -p option for the min base quality of a base being counted: You write that 0 would indicate overlapping bases from paired-end reads, which should be not counted twice. I am wondering if there is a mapper that sets those bases to 0 upon encountering overlapping mates while mapping? Or is this done by on a read merging program prior to mapping?
thanks,
Peter
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Hi Peter,
I'm not aware of any aligners that do that for you, this is usually done post-hoc...though honestly it'd be an easy enough thing to do. This is only really needed when people are making pileups, at which point it's easy enough to just do it then.
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