Separating a bam file into multiple bam files

How can I separate a bam file into multiple bam files such that each bam file contains information for one cell using UMI-tools?

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updated 3.1 years ago by Ram

• written 3.5 years ago by Researcher •

Assuming your data was processed by cellranger there should be a BAM fie with CB tags in it. Using those to split the file would be the way to go.

Some background info: https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/software/pipelines/latest/output/bam#bam-bc-tags

There are some approaches outlined in the blog linked by @igor in this thread: scRNAseq: Split FASTQ into cell specific FASTQ Files

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written 3.5 years ago by GenoMax

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10x provides an unsupported tool for this: https://github.com/10XGenomics/subset-bam You will need a list of cell barcodes.

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written 3.5 years ago by GenoMax

Thank you. I appreciate your help. I have not tried your answer yet because I found an R package, Sierra that seems to have a function for splitting a bam file into multiple bam files for every cell, "https://rdrr.io/github/VCCRI/Sierra/man/SplitBam.html". Have you ever tried this?

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written 3.5 years ago by Researcher •

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