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Keep only reads with a valid alignment start

Category Read Filters

Overview

Keep only reads with a valid alignment start (POS larger than 0) or is unmapped.

See MappedReadFilter for criteria defining an unmapped read.

Additional references

See these additional references.

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GATK version 4.4.0.0 built at Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:00:37 -0400.

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