[Samtools-help] Samtools tail

[Mike L. <mik...@gm...>]

Is it possible to get samtools to report the tail of a bam file without piping? In dealing with extremely large bamfiles, it takes a very long time to run "samtools view bam | tail" because samtools will linearly move the file. A solution is to coordinate sort and index, then pull out the last chromosome, however, could be possible to have a samtools directly do this? I think this may be useful to to some users.

Thanks,
Mike