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  • Reverse engineering BAM files: BAM -> FASTQ

    How can I possibly extract the reads from a BAM file and put them into a FASTQ file for simulation (maq simutrain, then maq simulate)?

    Should I just extract col. 1, 10 and 11 from a BAM file and put them in a text file along with a '+'? That is the output by read simulators.

    But does it not happen that DNA sequences and base quality sequences are reversed and/or transformed depending on the direction and strand of reads relative to reference genomes? I would have to fix that too in that case.

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      Check out http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16395 for bampe2fq.c and bamse2fq.c for fast implementations of bam to fastq programs. It handles your concerns about reverse complimenting the sequence and reversing the quality string.

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        Thanks. I found that SamToFastq in Picard did the job on a chromosome of NA12878 from the 1000 Genomes Project.

        1. I separated SE reads and PE reads by library into separate BAM files using SamTools.
        2. For PE reads, I also had to get rid of read-pairs that were unmapped (bit 3) or whose mate was unmapped (bit 4) or that were not properly aligned (bit 2).
        3. I further separated the BAM files by read length.
        4. Each BAM file now contained SE or PE reads only of the same read length and the same library.
        5. Now I could run SamToFastq to convert a SAM file to a DAT file for use with MAQ simutrain.

        Those were the steps to do to get what I wanted.

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