Re: [Samtools-help] Extract reads from indexed sorted bam files by name?

[Peter C. <p.j...@go...>]

On Saturday, December 7, 2013, Peng Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My understanding is the the index is for searching reads by region. Is
> there a way to extract reads by read name? Thanks.
>
>
Hi Peng,

No, not built into samtools. You can use samtools to sort all
the reads by name (normally it sorts by position), which
may help...

Peter