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Error in SAM to BAM conversion

I have used Bowtie2 to get alignment output as .SAM files. After getting sam files, I am getting the following errors: 

[W::sam_read1] Parse error at line 459
[main_samview] truncated file.

I have used the following command to produce sam file:

./bowtie2 -p 5 -x /ref/grch38 --no-unal -U fastq/SRR7541164.fastq >  /fastq/test.sam

And for samtools : 

samtools view -S -b /fastq/test.sam > /fastq/test.bam

I have checked .SAM file and fastq file to get the reason of error : few lines of both files are as follows: Command:

head -n 10 /home/vivekr/Mirpipe/moRNA_data/trimmed_fastq/SRR7541168_trimmed.fq

Output:

@SRR7541168.1 1 length=51
NCAGTGCACTACAGAACTTTGT
+
#0<FFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIFI
@SRR7541168.2 2 length=51
NCCCTGTGGTCTAGTGGTTAGGATT
+
#0<BFFFFBFFFFIFFBFFFF<BFF
@SRR7541168.3 3 length=51
NATTGCACTTGTCCCGGCCTGT

And for SAM files :

Command:

head -n 460 /home/vivekr/Mirpipe/moRNA_data/sorted_bam/SRR7541164_trimmed.sam | tail -n 20

Response:

@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270749v1 LN:158759
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270750v1 LN:148850
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270751v1 LN:150742
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270752v1 LN:27745
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270753v1 LN:62944
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270754v1 LN:40191
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270755v1 LN:36723
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270756v1 LN:79590
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270757v1 LN:71251
@SQ SN:chrUn_GL000214v1 LN:137718
@SQ SN:chrUn_KI270742v1 LN:186739
@SQ SN:chrUn_GL000216v2 LN:176608
@SQ SN:chrUn_GL000218v1 LN:161147
@SQ SN:chrX LN:156040895
@SQ SN:chrY LN:57227415
@SQ SN:chrY_KI270740v1_random   LN:37240
@PG ID:bowtie2  PN:bowtie2  VN:2.3.5.1  CL:"/home/vivekr/Mirpipe/Packages1
/bowtie2-2.3.5.1-sra-linux-x86_64/bowtie2-align-s --wrapper basic-0 -p 8 -x /home/vivekr/Mirpipe
/ref/grch38/hg38 /home/vivekr/Mirpipe/moRNA_data/sorted_bam/SRR7541164_trimmed.sam --passthrough -U /home/vivekr/Mirpipe/moRNA_data/trimmed_fastq/SRR7541164_trimmed.fq"
SRR7541164.1    16  chr7    25949921    42  23M *   0   0   GACAAAGTTCTGTAGTGCACTGN IIIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFF<0# AS:i:-1 XN:i:0  XM:i:1  
XO:i:0  XG:i:0  NM:i:1  MD:Z:22A0   YT:Z:UU
@SRR7541164.1 1 length=51%0ANCAGTGCACTACAGAACTTTGTC%0A+%0A#0<FFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIII%0A
SRR7541164.2    16  chr7    25949923    42  21M *   0   0   CAAAGTTCTGTAGTGCACTGN   IIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFF<0#   AS:i:-1 XN:i:0  XM:i:1  XO:i:0  XG:i:0  NM:i:1  MD:Z:20A0   YT:Z:UU

Version details are as follows:

samtools 1.7

Using htslib 1.7-2

Copyright (C) 2018 Genome Research Ltd.

I am not able to check what is causing sam file curruption or error while conversion from sam to bam. Anu sugesstions please....

Thanks.

alignment
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written by vivekr • vivekr

Hello ,

./bowtie2 -p 5 -x /ref/grch38 --no-unal -U fastq/SRR7541164.fastq > -S /fastq/test.sam

Just a typo here or do you realy redirecte bowtie output to -S?

What's the output of tail /fastq/test.sam?

fin swimmer

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written by finswimmer finswimmer

No. I use this -S to get output as sam file. The output of tail /fastq/test.sam is as follows:

@SRR7541164.20452273 20452273 length=51%0ACAAAGAATTCTCCTTTTGGGCTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAGT%0A+SRR7541164.20452273 20452273 length=51%0ABBBFFFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIBFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFII%0A SRR7541164.20452274 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 TCAGTGCACTACAGAACTTTGTCTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCA BBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFII YT:Z:UU

@SRR7541164.20452274 20452274 length=51%0ATCAGTGCACTACAGAACTTTGTCTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCA%0A+SRR7541164.20452274 20452274 length=51%0ABBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFII%0A SRR7541164.20452275 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 GTTTCCGTAGTGTAGTGGTTATCACGTTCGCCTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCA BBBFFFFFFFFFFFIFIIIIIIIIFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFBFF YT:Z:UU

@SRR7541164.20452275 20452275 length=51%0AGTTTCCGTAGTGTAGTGGTTATCACGTTCGCCTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCA%0A+SRR7541164.20452275 20452275 length=51%0ABBBFFFFFFFFFFFIFIIIIIIIIFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFBFF%0A SRR7541164.20452276 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 CTGTCTGAGCGTCGCTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAGTCACAT BBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFIIFFFIIIIIIIIIIBFFI YT:Z:UU

@SRR7541164.20452276 20452276 length=51%0ACTGTCTGAGCGTCGCTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAGTCACAT%0A+SRR7541164.20452276 20452276 length=51%0ABBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFIIFFFIIIIIIIIIIBFFI%0A SRR7541164.20452277 4 * 0 0 * * 0 0 AGCTACATTGTCTGCTGGGTTTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAG BBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII YT:Z:UU

@SRR7541164.20452277 20452277 length=51%0AAGCTACATTGTCTGCTGGGTTTTGGAATTCTCGGGTGCCAAGGAACTCCAG%0A+SRR7541164.20452277 20452277 length=51%0ABBBFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII%0A

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written by vivekr • vivekr

That last line is truncated, suggesting that your alignment got aborted prematurely.

Note that do sam-to-bam conversion on the fly without using a sam intermediate:

bowtie2 -x genome -U reads.fastq.gz | samtools sort -o alignment.bam
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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

You cannot use -S and > at the same time, so either you made a mistake or you gave us the wrong command.

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

I made a mistake. Definitely -S and > can't used together. Thanks for pointing it out. I have also checked and confirmed this with botiew2 manuals. I have edited the question also.

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written by vivekr • vivekr

Or sometimes check md5sum, if fastq files are downloaded correctly..

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written by Korsocius Korsocius

2 answers

As this is a common problem, here a quick summary:

  • Check that the output path is correct: /fastq/test.sam indicates writing to a root directory
  • do not store SAM files, use samtools view directly to get BAM: bowtie2 (...) | samtools view -o out.bam
  • output seems corrupted, rerun the entire alignment with the given suggestions.
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written by ATpoint ATpoint

It seems my issue is solved. Let me explain how I was getting fastq file and why I was getting error:

I need to do custom filtration in original fastq file. For that I have used HTSeq package available in bioconda. After that I need to generate bam file for each sample. So there can be two possible reason for getting surrupted sam file:

  1. Re-generated fastq file may not be written as proper/ desired manner which leads to currupted sam file and cause error in sam to bam conversion.

  2. Thanks to @WouterDeCoster to point out error in my command. I don't know why many times I used -S and > in same command and never cause erro but this time I got error form which I got to know about this.

How I solved this:

Instead to using bioconda, I used bbduk.sh and get correct fastq file and also with right command, I am able to get BAM file for all samples. Thanks to all for support.

Although, I need one more custom filtration (remove reads having at most 2 bases under quality score 20 and remove reads with unique sequence having read count less than 10 and I did not find any tool for those task till now. Please give any suggestions if I missed anything....) and I am looking for proper way to do this. For time being, I am moving forward with fastq obtained after bbduk.sh.

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written by vivekr • vivekr

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