Supplementary Figure 4: The WASP mapping pipeline.
From: WASP: allele-specific software for robust molecular quantitative trait locus discovery
Reads are first mapped to the genome using a mapping tool of the user’s choice. The aligned reads are provided to WASP in SAM (sequence alignment/map) or BAM (binary alignment/map) format, along with a list of known polymorphisms. WASP identifies reads that overlap known polymorphisms, flips the alleles in the reads, and remaps them to the genome. Reads that map to a different location than the original read are then discarded. Finally, WASP can optionally remove reads that map to the same genomic location (‘duplicate reads’) without introducing a reference bias.
