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  • Error "RG ID on SAMRecord not found in header" from Picard's MarkDuplicates.jar‏

    I am trying the following command:

    java -Xmx4g -jar /home/picard-tools-1.35/MarkDuplicates.jar INPUT=$dir/input.bam OUTPUT=$dir/output.bam TMP_DIR=/home/temp METRICS_FILE=PCR_duplicates REMOVE_DUPLICATES=true ASSUME_SORTED=true VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=LENIENT

    And getting lots of errors like "RG ID on SAMRecord not found in header".

    The command is still running and I haven't seen output.bam coming out... From what I saw previously, it is most likely that I will end up getting no output when the command stops.

    I used BWA for reads mapping, then SAMtools for sorting reads and merge reads from different lanes or different Illumina flowcells. For each bam file, I used the corresponding flowcell name as the prefix, e.g., FC124_1_sorted.bam.

    Since I merged different flowcells from the same Illumina machine, I used "samtools merge -r". Based on SAMtools manual, "merge -r" can attach an RG tag to each alignment. The tag value is inferred from file names.

    I am running commands in a cluster node which has 4GB RAM and 10Tb space and I assume the memory and space should be enough for picard.

    Anyone knows how to fix the error "RG ID on SAMRecord not found in header"?


    Thanks

    -C

  • #2
    Is there a line describing the read groups in your SAM header? (you can view the header on a bam file using e.g. samtools view -H)

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    • #3
      I used picard AddOrReplaceReadGroups.jar on this problem.

      I think samtools also can add (actually, replace: by samtools reheader) read groups to your bam file.

      For example:
      java -Xmx4g -jar /home/lab/bin/picard/AddOrReplaceReadGroups.jar VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=LENIENT VERBOSITY=ERROR SO=unsorted INPUT=sample.cat.pic OUTPUT=sample.rga.bam RGPL=illumina RGLB=sm_1110 RGPU=barcode_1110 RGSM=sample_1110
      Any other ideas?
      Last edited by alexbmp; 11-10-2011, 02:20 AM.

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      • #4
        Use picard's MergeSam rather than samtools merge if the files have different headers.

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        • #5
          @ Chipper

          Yes, I also agree using picard MergeSam instead of samtools merge.

          However I found a case that picard MergeSam doesn't take many inputs (500 inputs) when options are default.

          So in that case I used samtools merge (the files were split; they ought to have the same header).

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