Re: [Samtools-help] cigar_len

[Heng Li <lh...@sa...>]

cigar_len is the number of cigar operations in the cigar string. It is
stored in BAM as the lower 16 bits in "flag_nc".

Heng

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:17:48PM -0500, Kanwei Li wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The spec says there's a cigar string in the BAM definition, but I
> can't seem to find cigar_len anywhere. How do I compute it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kanwei
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