Fasta

Available from version 0.559+.

This option creates a fasta file from a sequencing data file (BAM file). The function uses genome information in the BAM header to determine the length and chromosome names. For the sites without data an "N" is written.

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[Single BAM file{bg:orange}]->[Sequence data|Random base (-doFasta 1);Consensus base (-doFasta 2)]

[sequence data]->doFasta[fasta file{bg:blue}]

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Brief Overview

> ./angsd -doFasta
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analysisFasta.cpp:
	-doFasta	0
	1: use a random base
	2: use the most common base (needs -doCounts 1)
	-minQ		13	(remove bases with qscore<minQ)

Options

-doFasta 1

sample a random base at each position.

-doFasta 2

use the most common base. In the case of ties a random base is chosen among the bases with the same maximum counts. The "-doCounts 1" options for allele counts is needed in order to determine the most common base.

-minQ [INT]

minimum base quality score.

Output

Output is a fasta file, a normal looking fast file. Nothing special about this. For -doFasta 1, sometimes its big letters sometime small letters. This is due to the results being copied directly from the sequencing data. So small/big letters correspond to which strand for the original data. For the consensus fasta all letters are capital letters.

Example

Create a fasta file bases from a random samples of bases.

./angsd -i smallNA07056.mapped.ILLUMINA.bwa.CEU.low_coverage.20111114.bam -doFasta 1