samtools用法

samtools命令

samtools是一款处理bam文件，sam文件的工具，包含有很多命令。本文介绍一下常用的命令。

Commands:
  -- Indexing
     dict           create a sequence dictionary file
     faidx          index/extract FASTA
     index          index alignment

  -- Editing
     calmd          recalculate MD/NM tags and '=' bases
     fixmate        fix mate information
     reheader       replace BAM header
     rmdup          remove PCR duplicates
     targetcut      cut fosmid regions (for fosmid pool only)
     addreplacerg   adds or replaces RG tags

  -- File operations
     collate        shuffle and group alignments by name
     cat            concatenate BAMs
     merge          merge sorted alignments
     mpileup        multi-way pileup
     sort           sort alignment file
     split          splits a file by read group
     quickcheck     quickly check if SAM/BAM/CRAM file appears intact
     fastq          converts a BAM to a FASTQ
     fasta          converts a BAM to a FASTA

  -- Statistics
     bedcov         read depth per BED region
     depth          compute the depth
     flagstat       simple stats
     idxstats       BAM index stats
     phase          phase heterozygotes
     stats          generate stats (former bamcheck)

  -- Viewing
     flags          explain BAM flags
     tview          text alignment viewer
     view           SAM<->BAM<->CRAM conversion
     depad