Sven, The SAM header is optional. I fear all fields are required. Don't despair, some can be set to constant values since we don't need paired-end mappings for Rabema. QNAME - make sure you truncate at the first space FLAG - only mapped/unmapped flag and strand flag are required RNAME - make sure you truncate at the first space POS - any output should contain this MAPQ - ignored, set to any value CIGAR - required for determining the alignment length RNEXT - fix to * PNEXT - fix to 0 TLEN - fix to 0 SEQ - required QUAL - ignored, can be set to length(SEQ) * "!" HTH *m -----Original Message----- From: Sven Giese [mailto:sven.giese@fu-berlin.de] Sent: Mittwoch, 14. März 2012 11:43 To: seqan-dev@lists.fu-berlin.de Subject: [Seqan-dev] Rabema input Hi everyone, I recently started using Rabema and I also want to compare some ReadMappers which do not support the .SAM format. Could anyone tell me which columns are mandatory for the comparison so that I could reconstruct a pseudo-Sam file? thanks in advance! best regards Sven Giese _______________________________________________ seqan-dev mailing list seqan-dev@lists.fu-berlin.de https://lists.fu-berlin.de/listinfo/seqan-dev