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========
Glossary
========
.. glossary::
:sorted:
cigar
Stands for Compact Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report and
represents a compressed (run-length encoded) pairwise alignment
format. It was first defined by the Exonerate Aligner, but was alter
adapted and adopted as part of the :term:`SAM` standard and many other
aligners. In the Python API, the cigar alignment is presented as a
list of tuples ``(operation,length)``. For example, the tuple ``[
(0,3), (1,5), (0,2) ]`` refers to an alignment with 3 matches, 5
insertions and another 2 matches.
region
A genomic region, stated relative to a reference sequence. A
region consists of reference name ('chr1'), start (10000), and
end (20000). Start and end can be omitted for regions spanning
a whole chromosome. If end is missing, the region will span from
start to the end of the chromosome. Within pysam, coordinates
are 0-based, half-open intervals, i.e., the position 10,000 is
part of the interval, but 20,000 is not. An exception are
:term:`samtools` compatible region strings such as
'chr1:10000-20000', which are closed, i.e., both positions 10,000
and 20,000 are part of the interval.
column
Reads that are aligned to a base in the :term:`reference` sequence.
tid
The :term:`target` id. The target id is 0 or a positive integer mapping to
entries within the sequence dictionary in the header section of
a :term:`TAM` file or :term:`BAM` file.
contig
The sequence that a :term:`tid` refers to. For example ``chr1``, ``contig123``.
Reference
Synonym for contig
SAM
A textual format for storing genomic alignment information.
BAM
Binary SAM format. BAM files are binary formatted, indexed and
allow random access.
TAM
Text SAM file. TAM files are human readable files of
tab-separated fields. TAM files do not allow random access.
sam file
A file containing aligned reads. The :term:`sam file` can either
be a :term:`BAM` file or a :term:`TAM` file.
pileup
Pileup
samtools
The samtools_ package.
csamtools
The samtools_ C-API.
fetching
Retrieving all mapped reads mapped to a :term:`region`.
target
The sequence that a read has been aligned to. Target
sequences have bot a numerical identifier (:term:`tid`)
and an alphanumeric name (:term:`Reference`).
tabix file
A sorted, compressed and indexed tab-separated file created
by the command line tool :file:`tabix` or the commands
:meth:`tabix_compress` and :meth:`tabix_index`. The file
is indexed by chromosomal coordinates.
tabix row
A row in a :term:`tabix file`. Fields within a row are
tab-separated.
soft clipping
soft clipped
In alignments with soft clipping part of the query sequence
are not aligned. The unaligned query sequence is still part
of the alignment record. This is in difference to
:term:`hard clipped` reads.
hard clipping
hard clipped
In hard clipped reads, part of the sequence has been removed
prior to alignment. That only a subsequence is aligend might be
recorded in the :term:`cigar` alignment, but the removed
sequence will not be part of the alignment record, in contrast
to :term:`soft clipped` reads.
VCF
Variant call format
BCF
Binary :term:`VCF`
tabix
Utility in the htslib package to index :term:`bgzip` compressed
files.
faidx
Utility in the samtools package to index :term:`fasta` formatted
files.
bgzip
Utility in the htslib package to block compress genomic data
files.
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