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samtools view -bSu in pipe is now redundant

Open tseemann opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

FYI, the samtools view is not needed since version 1.3 (or earlier possibly)

java -jar build/libs/bazam.jar -bam my.bam | \
         bwa mem -p ref.fa  - | \
         samtools view -bSu - | \
         samtools sort -o out.bam 

Can be done as:

java -jar build/libs/bazam.jar -bam my.bam | \
         bwa mem -p ref.fa  - | \
         samtools sort > out.bam 

Much speed can be gained by using sort --threads X and --memory Xm too.

tseemann avatar Apr 20 '19 09:04 tseemann

Thanks - will update docs!

ssadedin avatar Apr 21 '19 06:04 ssadedin