Original 34677439 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC- failed reads) 0 + 0 duplicates 29995490 + 0 properly paired (86.50%:nan%) 32605024 + 0 with itself and mate mapped 2072415 + 0 singletons (5.98%:nan%) 276858 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr 165466 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5) After PCR duplicate removal 23301708 + 0 in total (QC-passed reads + QC- failed reads) 0 + 0 duplicates 19065893 + 0 properly paired (81.82%:nan%) 21229293 + 0 with itself and mate mapped 2072415 + 0 singletons (8.89%:nan%) 276858 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr 165466 + 0 with mate mapped to a different chr (mapQ>=5) Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core, NTU Center of Genomic Medicine 2 32.7% duplicates Command to view alignment status samtools) $ samtools flagstat <in.bam> Two tools can remove PCR duplicates: samtools) $ samtools rmdup <in.bam> <out.rm_dup.bam> Picard) $ java –jar MarkDuplicates.jar INPUT=<in.bam> OUPUT=<out.rm_dup.bam> …