Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) files

I was trying to get all the mismatch from a sam file and hey, the start position of reads written in a sam file is calculated after soft clipped nucleotides!

And ‘N’ in reference sequence seems to mess up mismatch tag

edited: samtools mpileup output a nice file for mismatch parsing.

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