samtools / hts-specs

Specifications of SAM/BAM and related high-throughput sequencing file formats
http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/
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Recommend 1bp SEQ with QUAL="*" as quality-unavailable. #752

Open jkbonfield opened 5 months ago

jkbonfield commented 5 months ago

The change is simply a footnote indicating the presence of the ambiguity and a mild recommendation, however it's not likely to make any practical difference in real-world data where even if 1bp reads exist their quality values aren't likely to be a deciding factor over their validity.

Also in attempting to build the SAM spec my latex blew up. This turns out to be due to #670 which added use of \> for non-breaking space. Our systems here are pretty old, and latex couldn't cope with that. However in the interests of keeping the spec as easy to build as possible, I did a trivial replacement in its own commit.

github-actions[bot] commented 5 months ago

Changed PDFs as of a8550efeaa6ab2c6147ce4f854bb157bae2a5a53: SAMv1 (diff).