[BioC] a question in merging sam files for DEXSeq
Steve Lianoglou
lianoglou.steve at gene.com
Wed Jun 5 08:21:07 CEST 2013
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Chunjiang He <camelbbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to ask a question about using DEXSeq.
>
> I have two technical replicates for one sample and I need to merge them to
> get the exon counts.
>
> I've mapped them and get the sam files, can I just merge them as :
>
> cat 1.sam 2.sam > merged.sam
>
> and then sort it: sort -k1,1 -k2,2n merged.sam > merged.sorted.sam
>
> Then I use this merged.sorted.sam on dexseq_counts.py to get the exon
> counts.
>
> Is that Ok for my process?
Have you tried it?
-steve
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Steve Lianoglou
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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