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Questions specific to interacting with and post-processing sequence alignments using the SAMtools package. For questions specifically about formats SAM, BAM or CRAM use tags sam or bam,

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How to convert a Pileup file to VCF format with Hg19 alignment

Commonly used tools for variant calling include samtools, GATK, and FreeBayes. Long answer Converting data files from one format to another is a common task in bioinformatics. …
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Control width of samtools tview "snapshot" when redirecting

I cross-posted this question on the official samtools issue tracker, and finally got a response. Looking at the code for the HTML view, I see this and this. … So maybe try COLUMNS=200 samtools tview -d H -p CHR:X-Y aln.bam ref.fasta …
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Frequency of specific viral sequence in .BAM or .fastq

Most read aligners will report unaligned reads as well, which presumably will include your viral sequences. I would ask them to formally confirm that the BAM files will contain unaligned reads before …
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