NAME

samtools-fixmate - fills in mate coordinates and insert size fields.

SYNOPSIS

samtools fixmate [-rpcmu] [-O format] in.nameSrt.bam out.bam
 

DESCRIPTION

Fill in mate coordinates, ISIZE and mate related flags from a name-sorted or name-collated alignment.
 

OPTIONS

-r
Remove secondary and unmapped reads.
-p
Disable FR proper pair check.
-c
Add template cigar ct tag.
-m
Add ms (mate score) tags. These are used by markdup to select the best reads to keep.
-u
Output uncompressed BAM or CRAM.
-O FORMAT
Write the final output as sam, bam, or cram. By default, samtools tries to select a format based on the output filename extension; if output is to standard output or no format can be deduced, bam is selected.
--no-PG
Do not add a @PG line to the header of the output file.
-@, --threads INT
Number of input/output compression threads to use in addition to main thread [0].

AUTHOR

Written by Heng Li from the Sanger Institute.
 

SEE ALSO

samtools(1), samtools-markdup(1), samtools-sort(1), samtools-collate(1)
Samtools website: <http://www.htslib.org/>

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