Re: [Samtools-devel] Rightmost segment

[James B. <jk...@sa...>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 06:15:52AM +0800, Colin Hercus wrote:
> Why don't we just do away with it?

It's tempting, although it isn't something I control.
I guess we should perhaps just give up with the specs beleagured hope
of redefining tlen to be leftmost to rightmost and revert back to the
original 5' to 3' definition, given almost everyone (bar from what I
understand, you and I!) ignored the change and kept with the 5' to 3'
definition.

Anyway, for what it's worth I think we now have a solution in CRAM to
avoid having to decide on what this field means. (Thanks to Vadim for
the suggestion.)

James

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