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BAM 2 FASTQ using Picard and Samtools

Hey! Could use some insights, I am changing my BAM 2 fq to align to a new genome and I wanted to make sure I extract the R1, R2 and unmapped reads, so I can use to re-align to new genome. I have sorted and indexed my files already. I am not sure what I am doing wrong

#extract paired end reads

samtools view -b -f 1 -o paired_end_reads.bam input_sorted.bam


#Get files

java -jar picard.jar SamToFastq -I file_sorted.bam -F file_R1.fastq -F2 file_R2.fastq -FU file_unpaired.fastq -TMP_DIR  /projects/home/fastq

Can someone help?

pairedendfastq rnasequencing bam singletons
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written by kcarey • kcarey

Use samtools collate followed by samtools fastq in the same pipe like shown here: samtools collate

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

Hey ! Thank you for your response.

Giving this a try now. I have been trying to read to understand the difference between collate and then using samtools fastq, vs samtools sort, index, then Picard. So far I only see collate is the faster option to getting similar read names, ut not similar amongst groups. Would this pose a problem down the line?

Could you explain the difference, or why collate is more well suited for this?

My fear has been that I will not get the corrected paired end read data. I am using BAM files from a collaborator who does not have the original fastq reads still stored. I wanted to use Picard to account for singletons that I could then merge with my file to get all the possible reads, however, I was told this may be useless because singletons from the original alignment is only about 3% of the file.

I appreciate any information or links you can add! Thanks

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written by kcarey • kcarey

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