\name{BamInput}
\Rdversion{1.1}

\alias{scanBam}
\alias{scanBam,character-method}
\alias{countBam}
\alias{countBam,character-method}
\alias{scanBamHeader}
\alias{scanBamHeader,character-method}
\alias{asBam}
\alias{asBam,character-method}
\alias{indexBam}
\alias{indexBam,character-method}
\alias{filterBam}
\alias{filterBam,character-method}
\alias{sortBam}
\alias{sortBam,character-method}
\alias{mergeBam}
\alias{mergeBam,character-method}


\title{

  Import, count, index, filter, sort, and merge `BAM' (binary alignment)
  files.

}
\description{
  Import binary `BAM' files into a list structure, with facilities for
  selecting what fields and which records are imported, and other
  operations to manipulate BAM files.
}
\usage{

scanBam(file, index=file, ..., param=ScanBamParam(what=scanBamWhat()))

countBam(file, index=file, ..., param=ScanBamParam())

scanBamHeader(files, ...)
\S4method{scanBamHeader}{character}(files, ...)

asBam(file, destination, ...)
\S4method{asBam}{character}(file, destination, ...,
    overwrite=FALSE, indexDestination=TRUE)

filterBam(file, destination, index=file, ...)
\S4method{filterBam}{character}(file, destination, index=file, ...,
    indexDestination=TRUE, param=ScanBamParam(what=scanBamWhat()))
    
sortBam(file, destination, ...)
\S4method{sortBam}{character}(file, destination, ..., byQname=FALSE, maxMemory=512)

indexBam(files, ...)
\S4method{indexBam}{character}(files, ...)

mergeBam(files, destination, ...)
\S4method{mergeBam}{character}(files, destination, ..., region = RangedData(),
    overwrite = FALSE, header = character(), byQname = FALSE,
    addRG = FALSE, compressLevel1 = FALSE, indexDestination = FALSE)

}

\arguments{

  \item{file}{The character(1) file name of the `BAM' ('SAM' for
    \code{asBam}) file to be processed.}

  \item{files}{The character() file names of the `BAM' file to be
    processed. For \code{mergeBam}, must satisfy \code{length(files) >=
    2}.}

  \item{index}{The character(1) name of the index file of the 'BAM' file
    being processed; this is given \emph{without} the '.bai' extension.}

  \item{destination}{The character(1) file name of the location where
    the sorted, filtered, or merged output file will be created. For
    \code{asBam} and \code{sortBam} this is without the \dQuote{.bam}
    file suffix.}

  \item{region}{A RangedData() instance with \code{>= 1} rows,
    specifying the region of the BAM files to merged.}

  \item{\dots}{Additional arguments, passed to methods.}

  \item{overwrite}{A logical(1) indicating whether the destination
    can be over-written if it already exists.}

  \item{indexDestination}{A logical(1) indicating whether the created
    destination file should also be indexed.}
    
  \item{byQname}{A logical(1) indicating whether the sorted destination
    file should be sorted by Query-name (TRUE) or by mapping
    position (FALSE).}

  \item{header}{A character(1) file path for the header information to
    be used in the merged BAM file.}

  \item{addRG}{A logical(1) indicating whether the file name should be
    used as RG (read group) tag in the merged BAM file.}

  \item{compressLevel1}{A logical(1) indicating whether the merged BAM
    file should be compressed to zip level 1.}
    
  \item{maxMemory}{A numerical(1) indicating the maximal amount of
    memory (in MB) that the function is allowed to use.}

  \item{param}{An instance of \code{\linkS4class{ScanBamParam}}. This
    influences what fields and which records are imported.}

}
\details{

  The \code{scanBam} function parses binary BAM files; text SAM files
  can be parsed using R's \code{\link{scan}} function, especially with
  arguments \code{what} to control the fields that are parsed.

  \code{countBam} returns a count of records consistent with
  \code{param}.

  \code{scanBamHeader} visits the header information in a BAM file,
  returning for each file a list containing elements \code{targets} and
  \code{text}, as described below. The SAM / BAM specification does not
  require that the content of the header be consistent with the content
  of the file, e.g., more targets may be present that are represented by
  reads in the file.

  \code{asBam} converts 'SAM' files to 'BAM' files, equivalent to the
  \code{samtools view -Sb file > destination}. The 'BAM' file is sorted
  and an index created on the destination (with extension '.bai') when
  \code{indexDestination=TRUE}.

  \code{filterBam} parses records in \code{file} satisfying the
  \code{bamWhich} of \code{param}, writing each record satisfying the
  \code{bamFlag} and \code{bamSimpleCigar} criteria of \code{param} to
  file \code{destination}. An index file is created on the destination
  when \code{indexDestination=TRUE}.
  
  \code{sortBam} sorts the BAM file given as its first argument,
  analogous to the \dQuote{samtools sort} function.

  \code{indexBam} creates an index for each BAM file specified,
  analogous to the \sQuote{samtools index} function.

  \code{mergeBam} merges 2 or more sorted BAM files. As with samtools,
  the RG (read group) dictionary in the header of the BAM files is not
  reconstructed.
  
  Details of the \code{ScanBamParam} class are provide on its help page;
  several salient points are reiterated here. \code{ScanBamParam} can
  contain a field \code{what}, specifying the components of the BAM
  records to be returned. Valid values of \code{what} are available with
  \code{\link{scanBamWhat}}. \code{ScanBamParam} can contain an argument
  \code{which} that specifies a subset of reads to return. This requires
  that the BAM file be indexed, and that the file be named following
  samtools convention as \code{<bam_filename>.bai}. \code{ScanBamParam}
  can contain an argument \code{tag} to specify which tags will be
  extracted. 

}

\value{

  The \code{scanBam,character-method} returns a list of lists. The outer
  list groups results from each \code{Ranges} list of
  \code{bamWhich(param)}; the outer list is of length one when
  \code{bamWhich(param)} has length 0. Each inner list contains elements
  named after \code{scanBamWhat()}; elements omitted from
  \code{bamWhat(param)} are removed. The content of non-null elements
  are as follows, taken from the description in the samtools API
  documentation:

  \itemize{
    \item qname: This is the QNAME field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The query name, i.e., identifier, associated with the read.

    \item flag: This is the FLAG field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      A numeric value summarizing details of the read. See
      \code{\linkS4class{ScanBamParam}} and the \code{flag} argument, and
      \code{scanBamFlag()}.

    \item rname: This is the RNAME field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The name of the reference to which the read is aligned.

    \item strand: The strand to which the read is aligned.

    \item pos: This is the POS field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The genomic coordinate at the start of the alignment.
      Coordinates are `left-most', i.e., at the 3' end of a
      read on the '-' strand, and 1-based. The position \emph{excludes}
      clipped nucleotides, even though soft-clipped nucleotides are
      included in \code{seq}.

    \item qwidth: The width of the query, as calculated from the
      \code{cigar} encoding; normally equal to the width of the query
      returned in \code{seq}.

    \item mapq: This is the MAPQ field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The MAPping Quality.

    \item cigar: This is the CIGAR field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The CIGAR string.

    \item mrnm: This is the RNEXT field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The reference to which the mate (of a paired end or mate pair read)
      aligns.

    \item mpos: This is the PNEXT field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The position to which the mate aligns.

    \item isize: This is the TLEN field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      Inferred insert size for paired end alignments.

    \item seq: This is the SEQ field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      The query sequence, in the 5' to 3' orientation. If aligned
      to the minus strand, it is the reverse complement of the original
      sequence.

    \item qual: This is the QUAL field in SAM Spec v1.4.
      Phred-encoded, phred-scaled base quality score, oriented as
      \code{seq}.
  }

  \code{scanBamHeader} returns a list, with one element for each file
  named in \code{files}. The list contains two element. The
  \code{targets} element contains target (reference) sequence
  lengths. The \code{text} element is itself a list with each element a
  list corresponding to tags (e.g., \sQuote{@SQ}) found in the header,
  and the associated tag values.

  \code{asBam} returns the file name of the BAM file.

  \code{sortBam} returns the file name of the sorted file.

  \code{indexBam} returns the file name of the index file created.

  \code{filterBam} returns the file name of the destination file
  created.

}
\references{
  \url{http://samtools.sourceforge.net/}
}
\author{

  Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>.  Thomas Unterhiner
  <thomas.unterthiner@students.jku.at> (\code{sortBam}).

}

\seealso{

  \code{\linkS4class{ScanBamParam}}, \code{\link{scanBamWhat}},
  \code{\link{scanBamFlag}}

}
\examples{

fl <- system.file("extdata", "ex1.bam", package="Rsamtools")

res0 <- scanBam(fl)[[1]] # always list-of-lists
names(res0)
length(res0[["qname"]])
lapply(res0, head, 3)
table(width(res0[["seq"]])) # query widths
table(res0[["qwidth"]], useNA="always") # query widths derived from cigar
table(res0[["cigar"]], useNA="always")
table(res0[["strand"]], useNA="always")
table(res0[["flag"]], useNA="always")

which <- RangesList(seq1=IRanges(1000, 2000),
                    seq2=IRanges(c(100, 1000), c(1000, 2000)))
p1 <- ScanBamParam(which=which, what=scanBamWhat())
res1 <- scanBam(fl, param=p1)
names(res1)
names(res1[[2]])

p2 <- ScanBamParam(what=c("rname", "strand", "pos", "qwidth"))
res2 <- scanBam(fl, param=p2)
                
p3 <- ScanBamParam(flag=scanBamFlag(isMinusStrand=FALSE))
length(scanBam(fl, param=p3)[[1]])

sorted <- sortBam(fl, tempfile())

## map values(which) to output, e.g., of countBam
gwhich <- as(which, "GRanges")[c(2, 1, 3)]
values(gwhich)[["OriginalOrder"]] <- 1:3
cnt <- countBam(fl, param=ScanBamParam(which=gwhich))
cntVals <- unlist(split(values(gwhich), seqnames(gwhich)))
cbind(cnt, as.data.frame(cntVals))

}

\keyword{ manip }