Hi,

I extracted mitochondrial reads from a bam file and remapped them to a reference genome through the following python function (remap2mt). my goal is to take this bam file (remapped) and find the depth of coverage for that bam file (samtools depth -r chrM remapped.bam) . This requires the bam file to be sorted, which is why I include that at the bottom of this function, however it returns the following error that prevents any depths from being outputted. Can anyone tell me why the error is occurring? I took a look a the header of the remapped bam and got

@SQ     SN:gi|251831106|ref|NC_012920.1|        LN:16569
@PG     ID:bwa  PN:bwa  VN:0.7.10-r789  CL:bwa mem rCRS.fasta ID18_Proband_exome_L001_001_mtExtract_1.fq ID18_Proband_exome_L001_001_mtExtract_2.fq

THE ERROR: (occurs when I call samtools depth on the sorted remapped bam)

[bam_pileup_core] the input is not sorted (reads out of order)
[bam_plp_destroy] memory leak: 1. Continue anyway.

THE FUNCTION:

def remap2mt(bam,path2currentDirectory):
    #remap to the mtGenome (fasta file)
    newFastq1 = bam[:-9] + "_1.fq" #strings holding names of the fastq files
    newFastq2 = bam[:-9] + "_2.fq" 
    command = "samtools sort -n " + bam + " " +  bam[:-9]+ ".qsort" #bam must be sorted before conversion to fq
    print command
    job = shlex.split(command)
    stdout, stderr = sp.Popen(job,stdout=sp.PIPE).communicate() #execute sort command and send output to stdout

    command = "bedtools bamtofastq -i " + bam[:-9]+ ".qsort.bam" + " -fq " + newFastq1 + " -fq2 " + newFastq2  #convert from bam to fastq
    errFile = open('bamtofastqError', 'w+')
    stdout,stderr = sp.Popen(shlex.split(command),stdout=sp.PIPE, stderr=errFile).communicate()
    errFile.close()

    #remap the mtDNA extract to the reference genome
    command = "bwa mem rCRS.fasta " + newFastq1 +" " + newFastq2 
    remappedSam =str(bam[:-9] + "remap.sam")
    args = shlex.split(command)
    newPath = path2currentDirectory + "/" + remappedSam
    outfileHandle = open(newPath, 'w+')
    remapJob = sp.Popen(args, stdout = outfileHandle)
    stdout, stderr = remapJob.communicate()

    remappedBam = str(bam[:-9] + "remap.bam")
    command = "samtools view -bT rCRS.fasta " + remappedSam + " -o " + remappedBam
    args = shlex.split(command)
    job = sp.Popen(args, stdout = sp.PIPE, stderr = sp.PIPE)
    stdout, stderr = job.communicate()
    print "Remap executed"

   command = "samtools sort -n " + remappedBam + " " +  remappedBam[:-4]+ ".qsort" #resorting
    print command
    job = shlex.split(command)
    stdout, stderr = sp.Popen(job,stdout=sp.PIPE).communicate() #execute sort command and send output to stdout

    return remappedBam