How to convert bam to bam.bai files

Hi,

I have some bam files and I want to convert them to bam.bai files. I am very new to programming and have used some R Bioconductor packages. I was wondering whats the code for using Rsamtools to index the bam files.

Thanks.

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updated 10.3 years ago by Chris Miller

• written 10.3 years ago by jain.harshika •

1 answer

a) read this: A: Bam And Indexed Bam Files

b) from the shell, run "samtools index myfile.bam"

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written 10.3 years ago by Chris Miller

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