Hello,

I am trying to understand an error when running "samtools view":

Line 6040, sequence length 67 vs 76 from CIGAR
Parse error at line 6040: CIGAR and sequence length are inconsistent

I went back to check line 6040 from sam file (generated by HISAT2):

NR500449:117:H7WMXX:2:11101:6188:2761        99      10      103287073      60       3S73M   =       103287096       102     TGGCAAGAGTGAGATGGCACGCCACCTTCGGGAATACCAGGACTTGCTCAATGTCAAAAACATTGAG     AAAAAE6AA/EE/E///EEE//AEEEE/E/////E6E/EE/E<E///E//<EEE//</E//<AE6EE/E/E/EEE/    AS:i:-3 XN:i:0  XM:i:0  XO:i:0  XG:i:0 NM:i:0   MD:Z:73 YS:i:-12        YT:Z:CP NH:i:1

And lines corresponding to this alignment in R1 and R2 from fastq files:

@NR500449:117:H7WMXX:2:11101:6188:2761 1:N:0:3
TGGCAAGAGTGAGATGGCACGCCACCTTCGGGAATACCAGGACTTGCTCAATGTCAAAATGGCTCTTGACATTGAG
+
AAAAAE6AA/EE/E///EEE//AEEEE/E/////E6E/EE/E<E///E//<EEE//</E//<AE6EE/E/E/EEE/

@NR500449:117:H7WMXX:2:11101:6188:2761 2:N:0:3
TCCTGCAGTTTCCTGTAAGCTGCTATCTCAATGTCAAGAGACATTTTGACATTGAGAAAGTCCTGGTATTACCGAA
+
A/A/A/E///EAEEEEEE//EEE/EEEEEEEEAA//A<EE//EEE/EEA//6/AE//EA/<6/EE/E<AE////<E

Indeed the CIGAR string represents 76bps, same as the seq length from fastq, but the sam line has only 67bps. Any idea about why would this happen and how to deal with it? Thank you very much.