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freebayes issue for BAM file

Hi, I am doing variant allele discovery via freebayes. However, I always got Opened BAM reader without index file, jumping is disabled. could not find SM: in @RG tag @RG ID:FASTQ_Groomer_on_data_1. Can anybody help me to figure it out?

software error sequencing snp

1 answer

The message is clear: your BAM header is missing a sample name (SM) in the read group (RG) see :

Read Group In Sam/Bam Files: What Do They Exactly Describe?

Adding Read Groups To Bam Files

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