mpileupCounts

This step uses granite mpileupCounts to create a rck file from a bam input file. This is a pre-requisite step for calling de novo mutations.

  • CWL: granite-mpileupCounts.cwl

Requirements

The command takes a bam file and a genome reference fasta file as input. To optimize performance, it is also possible to specify a file containing a list of genomic regions to parallelize the analysis.

Output

The output rck file contains read pileup counts information for every genomic position, stratified by allele (REFerence vs ALTernate), strand (ForWard vs ReVerse), and type (SNV, INSertion, DELetion). The rck file is then compressed and indexed with tabix.

A few lines from an example rck file is shown below:

#CHR   POS   COVERAGE   REF_FW   REF_RV   ALT_FW   ALT_RV   INS_FW   INS_RV   DEL_FW   DEL_REV
13     1     23         0        0        11       12       0        0        0        0
13     2     35         18       15       1        1        0        0        0        0

References

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