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  • Base coverage from Bam

    Hi,
    I wonder if there is any option in, e.g., samtools to display regions (positions) with the base coverage >= given threshold. Something opposite to the mpileup option (when we have positions and want to see base coverage and quality). I have very small number of reads mapped to the genome and I want to see those tens or hundreds regions covered by, at least, 10-15 reads.
    Thanks.

  • #2
    you could use genomeCoverageBed/Bam from bedtools with the -bg option to produce a bedgraph file, that can be filtered easily: awk '($4>-10)'

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    • #3
      Assuming you used (-c):
      Code:
      $ awk '{if ($8>4) print}' my.pileup
      -drd

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      • #4
        adamdeluca, drio, thanks a lot!

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        • #5
          I ran genomeCoverageBed from the bedtools and it was fine. However, I noticed rather strange detail. To run genomeCoverageBed you need to provide a genome file in the following format:
          <chromName><TAB><chromSize>

          I work with a masked reference genome. Firstly, I provided actual sizes (number of unmasked bases + number of Ns (masked)). In addition, I also made a genome file with sizes without masked bases.
          After running genomeCoverageBed with these two different genome files I got the same results.
          E.g.,
          chr_name 100 102 37
          (that is, bases at the positions 101 and 102 on the given chr are covered with 37 reads).
          I checked results using IGV, and found out they are true: the count for the bases 101 and 102 is really 37.
          The question is: what is the purpose of the genome file, and why the chromSize value doesn't influence on the output (at least, it's my, perhaps, wrong impression)?

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