converting fasta file into bam file
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@nosheenfaiz09-13430
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Hi all,

I am new in using bioconductor can anybody tell me how to convert fasta file into bam file??

can you provide me the code?

many thanks

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I think fasta format and bam format represent totally different things, one is for sequence, the other is for alignment. Could you clarify it?

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Thank you

yes fasta is Raw file file i have to covert fasta file into bam file so that i could align the sequences..

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Hi nosheenfaiz09,

You miss an essential step in your analysis: alignment. Usually reads (in fastq format) are aligned to a reference genome, the results from such an alignment are saved in bam format, which contains information about the reads and their genome-aligned coordinates. Without alignment you cannot just convert from fastq (or fasta) to bam.

There are many aligners available, if you need one from bioconductor, you can use subread.

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@nosheenfaiz09-13430
Last seen 7.4 years ago

Dear  b.nota 

Thank you for your reply. Yes, you are right and I did alignment and saved it as bam file but now I DONT KNOW HOW TO GET COUNT MATRIX FROM THIS BAM FILE.

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This isn't an 'ANSWER' but a 'Comment'. Please use the support site appropriately.

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A BAM file is a binary alignment/map file that holds the information on the sequences from your FASTQ raw output and the coordinates of where they map to. What you need to do now is quantify how many reads map to each transcript or gene. The usual tools for that are Cufflinks or StringTie. Have a look at the different algorithms here: http://ccb.jhu.edu/software.shtml and some background here: http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v11/n9/full/nprot.2016.095.html

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