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From: Irena Fischer-H. <ih...@st...> - 2017-01-13 23:17:29
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Hi, I'm trying to index a huge BAM file (~180 GB) in anticipation of converting it to SAM. I tried running >> samtools index file.bam but it got killed, most likely because my computer ran out of RAM. Can someone give me a ballpark estimate of how much memory is needed to index a BAM file as a function of the BAM file's size? Correspondingly, what sort of memory requirements should I anticipate in order to convert the indexed BAM file to a sorted SAM file? Thanks, -Irena |