Hi David & Colin,

Thank you for your generous help. It works.

Daniel Chau

On 6 April 2016 at 16:36, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Looking at the reads in the attached sam file you have only 4 reads marked
> as ‘properly paired’. You can establish this by looking at the values in
> the FLAG field for each read.
> By default mpileup excludes these ‘anomalous’ (not properly paired) reads.
>
> If you to add -A to your command you would see all of the reads are
> included in the pileup (see attached).
>
> samtools mpileup -Q0 -A t.sam > t2.pileup
>
> David Jones
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>
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>
> On 6 Apr 2016, at 06:28, Daniel Chau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am an undergrad and newbie to bioinformatics. Recently I encountered a
> problem that I could not solve on myself.
>
> A pileup file was generated by this command:
>
> samtools mpileup -Q0 -f ucsc.hg19.fasta t.sam > t.pileup
>
> . There are 9 alignment items in that sam file, but only 4 of them are
> shown in the pileup file.
>
> Both the sam file and the pileup file are attached. Sum of them are
> smaller than 1MB.
>
> I really hope you could help me and tell me why whose 5 alignment items
> are abandoned by samtools.
>
> Sincere appreciation.
>
> Daniel Chau
>
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