Samtools view -s selects a fraction of the reads in a SAM file. It does this by hashing the query name to generate systematic random numbers that are then used to choose if the read should be output.
(allas_samtools) [jniskan@puhti-login1 bam_indexes]$ samtools --version samtools 1.10 Using htslib 1.10.2 Copyright (C) 2019 Genome Research Ltd. # chr1:1-1000 works ...
Bioinformaticsis a rapidly evolving field filled with a plethora of tools for processing and manipulating next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The performance of NGS alignment tools continues to ...