On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:15 PM, Hongdong Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Heng,
> 
>   Thanks a lot for your great samtools! I am recently using it to extract 
> reads overlapping with intron regions. I first used samtools view -L 
> somebedfile. Regarding the overlapping with regions defined in bedfile, I 
> have two questions here: first, how many bases are required to claim a read 
> overlaps a region in a bedfile, at least one base or any threshold?

One base.

> Second, for the bedfile, does it need any other field (columns) in addition 
> to the mandatory 3 columns containing ref, start and end position. Your help 
> would be highly appreciated!

Columns beyond the first three are ignored.

Heng

> 
> Best,
> Hongdong
> 


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