Adds optional arguments to report k-best alignments with a NH tag #499
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Design
This PR describes two new input, optional arguments for
bowtie2-align
:--kbest
. This argument is expected to be used along with the-k
alignment mode to report up tok
alignments, with a constraint that all reported alignments share the same alignment score with the primary alignment.--show-nh-tag
. When this is set, shows theNH:i
tag to report the number of alignments of a query. This is particularly useful in the-k/-a
modes.The changes should not change the default
bowtie2-align
behaviors, at least in my test runs.Test case
FASTQ (two tRNA sequences):
Resulting SAM mapped to chm13v2 with
-k 3
(changes in this PR would not affect this run):Resulting SAM mapped to chm13v2 with
-k 3 --kbest
:Resulting SAM mapped to chm13v2 with
-k 3 --kbest --show-nh-tag
: