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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2009 The Broad Institute
+ *  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+ *  obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+ *  Þles (the ÓSoftwareÓ), to deal in the Software without
+ *  restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+ *  copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+ *  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+ *  Software is furnished to do so, sub ject to the following
+ *  conditions:
+ *  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+ *  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ÓAS ISÓ, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ *  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+ *  OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+ *  NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+ *  HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+ *  WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ *  * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+ *  * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.qc;
+
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.Requires;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.DataSource;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.ReadWalker;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.ReadMetaDataTracker;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.StingException;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.Utils;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.MathUtils;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.sam.AlignmentUtils;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.Argument;
+import net.sf.samtools.*;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+
+/**
+ * User: depristo
+ * Date: May 5, 2010
+ * Time: 12:16:41 PM
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Walks over the input reads, printing out statistics about the read length, number of clipping events, and length
+ * of the clipping to the output stream.
+ */
+@Requires({DataSource.READS})
+public class ReadClippingStatsWalker extends ReadWalker<ReadClippingStatsWalker.ReadClippingInfo,Integer> {
+    @Argument(fullName="mappedOnly", shortName="mo", doc="when this flag is set (default), statistics will be collected "+
+                "on mapped reads only, while unmapped reads will be discarded", required=false)
+    protected boolean MAPPED_ONLY = true;
+
+    @Argument(fullName="skip", shortName="skip", doc="When provided, only every skip reads are analyzed", required=false)
+    protected int SKIP = 1;
+
+//    public void initialize() {
+//
+//    }
+
+    public class ReadClippingInfo {
+        SAMReadGroupRecord rg;
+        int readLength, nClippingEvents, nClippedBases;
+    }
+
+    public ReadClippingInfo map(char[] ref, SAMRecord read, ReadMetaDataTracker metaDataTracker) {
+        if ( AlignmentUtils.isReadUnmapped(read) && MAPPED_ONLY)
+            return null;
+
+        ReadClippingInfo info = new ReadClippingInfo();
+        info.rg = read.getReadGroup();
+
+        if ( info.rg == null ) throw new StingException("Read "+read.getReadName()+" is not assigned to any read group");
+
+        for ( CigarElement elt : read.getCigar().getCigarElements() ) {
+            if ( elt.getOperator() != CigarOperator.N )
+
+            switch ( elt.getOperator()) {
+                case H : // ignore hard clips
+                case S : // soft clip
+                    info.nClippingEvents++;
+                    info.nClippedBases += elt.getLength();
+                    // note the fall through here
+                case M :
+                case D : // deletion w.r.t. the reference
+                case P : // ignore pads
+                case I : // insertion w.r.t. the reference
+                    info.readLength += elt.getLength(); // Unless we have a reference skip, the read gets longer
+                    break;
+                case N : // reference skip (looks and gets processed just like a "deletion", just different logical meaning)
+                    break;
+                default : throw new IllegalStateException("Case statement didn't deal with cigar op: " + elt.getOperator());
+            }
+        }
+
+        return info;  //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provide an initial value for reduce computations.
+     *
+     * @return Initial value of reduce.
+     */
+    public Integer reduceInit() {
+        out.println(Utils.join(" \t", Arrays.asList("ReadGroup", "ReadLength", "NClippingEvents", "NClippedBases", "PercentClipped")));
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reduces a single map with the accumulator provided as the ReduceType.
+     *
+     * @param info  result of the map.
+     * @param sum   accumulator for the reduce.
+     * @return accumulator with result of the map taken into account.
+     */
+    public Integer reduce(ReadClippingInfo info, Integer sum) {
+        if ( info != null ) {
+            if ( sum % SKIP == 0 ) {
+                String id = info.rg.getReadGroupId();
+                out.printf("%s\t %d\t %d\t %d\t %.2f%n",
+                        id, info.readLength, info.nClippingEvents, info.nClippedBases,
+                        100.0 * MathUtils.ratio(info.nClippedBases, info.readLength));
+            }
+            return sum + 1;  //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
+        } else {
+            return sum;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void onTraversalDone(Integer result) {
+
+    }
+}
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