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  • maasha
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 153

    BWA sam and Samtools sam->bam conversion problem

    Hello all,

    I have a SAM file create with BWA, but I cannot convert it to BAM because of the following:

    samtools view -S foo.sam -b -o foo.bam
    [samopen] no @SQ lines in the header.
    [main_samview] random alignment retrieval only works for indexed BAM files.



    The SAM file looks like this:


    head foo.sam
    5_gECOjxwXsN1 0 contig00025 28520 37 35M = 28520 0 AACGNTACTATCGTGACATGCGTGCAGGATTACAC abb^D[a`ab^`Y`a_[___^[ON\X`_Y]`_aa\ XT:A:U NM:i:1 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:1 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:4T30
    3_8ICOjxwXsN1 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 ACTCNAGGGTTCGATTCCCTTCAACCGCCCCATAA a`WYD[aaaW_^_[^^W`]`]\^`\V][[_]QV\\
    3_GUCOjxwXsN1 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 TTGCNTCCTTCTTCTGCCTTCGTTGGCTCAGATTG `aaYDRb_a[a`]^X^`]`aa`]XVT]R[^`TZVY
    5_BWCOjxwXsN1 0 contig00138 59297 37 35M = 59297 0 TATATACAGGAATCCATTGTTGTTTAGATTCAGTT ab`b`baaaa`b``ZY]YW^aS[_]OLT_VRS]UZ XT:A:U NM:i:0 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:0 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:35
    7_NZCOjxwXsN1 16 contig00115 1617 37 35M = 1617 0 AGGTAGCCGTATCGGAAGGTGCGGCTGGATCACCT MSKNT\V^TSWW`\`Z^Z\Q\\___a`a_`ZDY`] XT:A:U NM:i:0 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:0 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:35
    3_2VCOjxwXsN1 16 contig00005 66001 37 35M = 66001 0 CTTAATGGGTGAAGATGTCTACACACCTGGAAAAG aaaaa`a``aa_aaaa`aab_b`b[aabaaaabaa XT:A:U NM:i:0 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:0 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:35
    5_kVCOjxwXsN1 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 CTACACCTAAGTTACATCGTCCATTATTTTCCAAT aaaaaaaabaa_aa_a__a^a[[``\a`a][\`[_
    1_GbCOjxwXsN1 0 contig00105 1098 37 35M = 1098 0 CCAGACAACTAGGATGTTGGCTTAGAAGCAGCCAT ```_aabaaa`ba`Y`S[_`_^]a^a`_YaYSUXT XT:A:U NM:i:0 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:0 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:35
    5_fTCOjxwXsN1 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 TTAGCTTTAACCATTTTCTTTTTGTCTAAAGCAAA aabb__\_aaabU_^^[^`[\_`aWaa``_^a``_
    3_VWCOjxwXsN1 16 contig00027 14175 37 35M = 14175 0 GTTTAACGCGTTCACGTTCGCCACGCGCATCATAA T\`a\\a]]V]aa_aaaaaaaaY`abab_aaabba XT:A:U NM:i:0 X0:i:1 X1:i:0 XM:i:0 XO:i:0 XG:i:0 MD:Z:35



    Suggestions are welcome.



    Martin
  • nilshomer
    Nils Homer
    • Nov 2008
    • 1283

    #2
    Originally posted by maasha View Post
    samtools view -S foo.sam -b -o foo.bam
    Try
    Code:
    samtools view -S -b foo.sam > foo.bam
    There is no argument to the -S option.

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    • lh3
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 686

      #3
      In addition, please use the latest bwa-0.5.4. 0.4.9 does not print SAM header.

      Comment

      • maasha
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2009
        • 153

        #4
        Yup, it was a BWA version problem. I did not realize that BWA now have its own spot on Sourceforge - with newer versions than 0.5.0. The Maq website is misleading (at least it mislead me ).

        All is good now. Thanks.

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        • saraoh
          Junior Member
          • May 2013
          • 1

          #5
          Hi
          I used your command, but seems it is not working properly
          samtools view -S -b SAM.sam' > bam1.bam
          Why I got the following line:
          [samopen] SAM header is present: 94 sequences.

          Finally I got the BAM file, but it is empty

          Comment

          • Chulab4121
            Junior Member
            • May 2013
            • 2

            #6
            i use the latest SRA tool kit to convert sra to sam but also no header. (-S -b -r )

            Comment

            • abi
              Member
              • May 2013
              • 18

              #7
              I am using the latest version of BWA and SAMTOOLS. I get following error when trying to convert from SAM to BAM with the following command:

              samtools view -bS chunkalign.1.sam > chunkalign.1.bam

              Parse warning at line 27: mapped sequence without CIGAR
              Parse error at line 27: sequence and quality are inconsistent
              Aborted

              Comment

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