abdenlab / oxbow

Read specialized NGS formats as data frames in R, Python, and more.
https://lifeinbytes.substack.com/p/breaking-out-of-bioinformatic-data-silos
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read_bam shouldn't require BAM index #59

Open shenker opened 9 months ago

shenker commented 9 months ago

It would be great if read_bam worked without a BAM index (provided you're not doing a region query). My use case: Oxford Nanopore's Dorado basecaller outputs basecalled reads in BAM format (where all the alignment fields are null in the BAM), so I want to read them, but there's no point in indexing them.