Hello,
I'm trying to use the Java API for picard/samtools to write a BAM file to standard output.
With the code below I can write SAM to stdout. However, I would like to write directly as BAM to stdout. Is it possible?
SAMFileWriterFactory sf= new SAMFileWriterFactory();
SAMFileWriter sw= sf.makeSAMWriter(mySamFileHeader, false, System.out);
sw.addAlignment(mySamRecord);
Many thanks
Dario
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try to use:
makeBAMWriter(mySamFileHeader,false,new File("/dev/stdout"));
or try to create a BAMFileWriter with file=null (not tested, but it should work (?))
return new BAMFileWriter(System.out, (File)null)
Thanks Pierre! Your first option would work but I'm a bit reluctant to hard-coding "/dev/stdout". Your second option however put me in the right direction. This seems to work:
SAMFileHeader samFileHeader= sam.getFileHeader();
SAMFileWriterFactory sf= new SAMFileWriterFactory();
BAMFileWriter sw= new BAMFileWriter((OutputStream)System.out, (File)null);
sw.setHeader(samFileHeader);
sw.addAlignment(rec);
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