Re: [Samtools-devel] SAM comment lines

[Richard D. <rd...@sa...>]

I' be happy to support adding a header comment line type like this. 

Richard

Paul Anderson wrote:
> It would be useful for annotation purposes that fall outside of the
> various tags to allow a mapper to write SAM file comments in the
> header.
>
> Adding the header type '@CO' where readers would ignore all characters
> till the newline would work.
>
> Translators may pass them along in the pipeline, but it wouldn't be required.
>
> I'd like to use this to annotate mapper specific additions to the map records.
>
> Paul Anderson, Umich
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