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How to retrieve the SNP data from Bam file

I'm analyzing the exome sequencing data and plan to retrieve the nucleotide counts of specific positions from Bam files. I am a beginner of bioinformatics. My friends said pysamstats is a good software. If you have a information, would you please tell me what software is best and how can I do that?

I wanna get the nucleotide frequency of 5000 SNPs.

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chr1 2000454 A:5 T:546 C: 2

chr2 230404 A:1 T:2 C:343

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chrx 3234343 A:323 T:1

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updated by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum • written by cdc421 • cdc421

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I wrote http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/FindAllCoverageAtPosition.html

usage:

echo "my.bam" | java -jar dist/findallcoverageatposition.jar --posfile positions.bed

example of output:

#File              CHROM      POS  SAMPLE  DEPTH  M    I  D  N  S   H  P  EQ  X  Base(A)  Base(C)  Base(G)  Base(T)  Base(N)  Base(^)  Base(-)
./testdata/S4.bam  rotavirus  100  S4      126    126  0  0  0  29  0  0  0   0  5        0        0        121      0        0        0
./testdata/S1.bam  rotavirus  100  S1      317    317  1  0  0  50  0  0  0   0  27       0        1        289      0        1        0
./testdata/S2.bam  rotavirus  100  S2      311    311  0  1  0  60  0  0  0   0  29       1        0        281      0        0        1
./testdata/S3.bam  rotavirus  100  S3      446    446  1  0  0  86  0  0  0   0  39       0        1        406      0        1        0
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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Thanks. You recommend the Jvarkit, not pysamstats. Is it correct? I'm a true beginner .

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written by cdc421 • cdc421

yes, but I'm sure pysamstats works too (I don't know this software)

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Would you please tell me how can I retrieve the data of 1000 SNPs from 5 different samples? Your command is for one SNP.

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written by cdc421 • cdc421

I made bed files, but they didn't work. What format is necessary for the analysis.

I always see the following results, I don't know why..

find ./lib/testdata/ -type f -name "*.bam" | \ java -jar dist/findallcoverageatposition.jar --posfile positions.bed

File exists but is not readable

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written by cdc421 • cdc421

Hey Pierre, what's the format of this positions.bed? I have tried Chr\tStart\tEnd and is not working :(

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written by geocarvalho geocarvalho

If you have your positions of interest in bed format you could look into bam-readcount.

You can run it simply as bam-readcount -l regions.bed -f ref.fa file.bam and get frequency values for all the nucleotides along with a bunch of additional info in case required.

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written by rizoic rizoic

You recommend bam-readcount. Would you please tell me how can I retrieve the data of 1000 SNPs from 5 different samples?

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written by cdc421 • cdc421

You recommend bam-readcount. Would you please tell me how can I retrieve the data of 1000 SNPs from 5 different samples?

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written by cdc421 • cdc421

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