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In CIGAR table, what does P operation mean?

Hi everyone. There is a something curious about CIGAR table's list about

P 6 padding (silent deletion from padded reference)

what does P mean and what's diffrence with D operation?

Thank you.

cigar padding silent deletion

1 answer

It's padding. It's only used for multiple sequence alignment when one wants to add some 'aesthetic' blank characters to get a beautiful visualization.

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