GraphMap - A highly sensitive and accurate mapper for long, error-prone reads http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160415/ncomms11307/full/ncomms11307.html Note: This was the original repository which will no longer be officially maintained. Please use the new official repository here:
Graphmap alignment resulted in a Sam-file containing emtpy lines. Downstream applications like samtools gave me errors because of this.
Case - Aligning of a 1D NanoPore E.Coli dataset to the reference genome
Workaround I used, but not ideal:
sed '/^$/d' output.sam > output.new.sam