ReplaceReadGroups

Replaces read groups in a BAM file

Useful for fixing problems such as not having read groups in a bam file.

java -jar picard/AddOrReplaceReadGroups.jar I= testdata/exampleNORG.bam O= exampleNewRG.bam SORT_ORDER=coordinate RGID=foo RGLB=bar RGPL=illumina RGSM=DePristo

Note that this tool is now part of the Picard package: AddOrReplaceReadGroups

This tool can fix BAM files without read group information:

# throws an error
java -jar dist/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -R testdata/exampleFASTA.fasta -I testdata/exampleNORG.bam -T UnifiedGenotyper 

# fix the read groups
java -jar picard/AddOrReplaceReadGroups.jar I= testdata/exampleNORG.bam O= exampleNewRG.bam SORT_ORDER=coordinate RGID=foo RGLB=bar RGPL=illumina RGSM=DePristo CREATE_INDEX=True

# runs without error
java -jar dist/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -R testdata/exampleFASTA.fasta -I exampleNewRG.bam -T UnifiedGenotyper