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Document `--sam-no-qname-trunc` #86
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BenLangmead commentedMar 6, 2017
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--sam-no-qname-truncparameter instructs Bowtie 2 to print the complete read name to the SAM file even if it contains whitespace. This violates the SAM spec, but is often desirable in pipelines that use Bowtie 2 as a subcomponent. (Such pipelines usually "fix" the malformed SAM before ultimately reporting it.) It's been in Bowtie 2 for a while, but never documented. I vote we document it. This should include adding text to the manual under "SAM output" -> "1. Name of read that aligned" noting that the standard behavior of truncating at the first whitespace can be suppressed with--sam-no-qname-trunc, at the expense of generating non-standard SAM.