When I re-index Rsamtools::extdata/ex1.bam I get a different and larger index file:
bam <- system.file("extdata", "ex1.bam", package="Rsamtools") bai <- system.file("extdata", "ex1.bam.bai", package="Rsamtools") # Reindex bam2 <- basename(bam) file.copy(bam, bam2) bai2 <- Rsamtools::indexBam(bam2) # New index file is greater file.info(c(bai, bai2))$size ## [1] 72 176 unname(sapply(c(bai, bai2), function(f) digest::digest(file=f))) ## [1] "f3fa4087d439dad4d404b34dad491747" ## [2] "1888862b9d22ddb8ca663eabc41c78f0" Is the package's index file generated with an outdated version of [R]samtools? According to the SVN logs it dates back to 2009-08-08. Sorry if this is a FAQ. I get this with Rsamtools 1.16.0 on both Linux and Windows: > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] BiocGenerics_0.10.0 Biostrings_2.32.0 bitops_1.0-6 [4] digest_0.6.4 GenomeInfoDb_1.0.2 GenomicRanges_1.16.1 [7] IRanges_1.22.3 parallel_3.1.0 Rsamtools_1.16.0 [10] stats4_3.1.0 tools_3.1.0 XVector_0.4.0 [13] zlibbioc_1.10.0 > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.0 Patched (2014-04-10 r65396) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] BiocGenerics_0.10.0 Biostrings_2.32.0 bitops_1.0-6 [4] digest_0.6.4 GenomeInfoDb_1.0.2 GenomicRanges_1.16.1 [7] IRanges_1.22.2 parallel_3.1.0 Rsamtools_1.16.0 [10] stats4_3.1.0 tools_3.1.0 XVector_0.4.0 [13] zlibbioc_1.10.0 /Henrik _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel