The CIGAR B operator is absent from the spec.

samtools / hts-specs

Specifications of SAM/BAM and related high-throughput sequencing file formats

http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/

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The CIGAR B operator is absent from the spec. #17

Open jkbonfield opened 10 years ago

jkbonfield commented 10 years ago

(SAM specification)

Not only does it need to be documented, but we need to codify all the various constraints. The code already disallows B going beyond the bounds of the sequence (1M2B1M) but what about B in conjunction with other cigar ops, like soft-clipping, reference skips, or indels?

I'm not sure if the forum discussions ever got that far.

yfarjoun commented 6 years ago

I propose that we close this for lack of interest.