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Bam File: Which Column Change When We Flag The Duplicate Reads

Hi everyone,

I would like to know which column or parameter change in bam file when we flag the PCR duplicate?

Thank you star

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It is flag 1024 as explained here http://picard.sourceforge.net/explain-flags.html

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