Take input from stdin (-) and print the SAM header and any reads overlapping a specific region to stdout

samtools

  • Tools for handling high-throughput sequencing (genomics) data.
    Used for reading/writing/editing/indexing/viewing of data in SAM/BAM/CRAM format.
    More information: <https://www.htslib.org>.
  • Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

{{other_command}} | samtools view -h - chromosome:start-end

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