From: Heng Li <lh...@sa...> - 2010-08-25 13:47:12
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On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Keiran Raine wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just come to write some code and thought to myself, wouldn't it > be useful if 'read length' was a tag in the @RG header lines. > > I expect there are a few things to check > > 1. Is it likely that a RG would not have fixed read length? 454/Sanger/Helicos/PacBio reads are variable in length. > 2. Should it be enforced and validated if defined? So this cannot be a mandatory tag. > 3. RL seems a sensible tag, any objections? But it is a sensible tag for Illumina/SOLiD. We may redefine it as "average read length" which is useful information without going through the alignments. Heng > > Has this been previously shot down in flames? I did check though past > emails (but I could have missed it). > > Regards, > > Keiran Raine > Senior Computer Biologist > The Cancer Genome Project > Ext: 7703 > kr...@sa... > > > > > > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Samtools-devel mailing list > Sam...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-devel -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. |