<p>a. Is there a SAM flag that specifies all reads?
b. Is there a SAM flag that specifies none of the reads?</p>
<p>So that if I run samtools view -f (a) -F (b)
the result will be all reads of the file (as if omitting the specification)  ?</p>

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Is there a sam flag for all&none of the reads?
# Is there a sam flag for all&none of the reads?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-10-12)

a. Is there a SAM flag that specifies all reads?
b. Is there a SAM flag that specifies none of the reads?

So that if I run samtools view -f (a) -F (b)
the result will be all reads of the file (as if omitting the specification) ?

**Tags:** samtools, sam

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