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. 2021 Aug 10;11:16194. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95435-3

Figure 9.

Figure 9

TLEN calculation. The illustration shows how TLEN is calculated for paired-end reads. The definition from the bam specification says that TLEN or the signed observed template length is the length between the mapped end of the template to the mapped start of the template for all reads mapped to the same template (https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf). This means the distance between the 5′ end of the leftmost read and the 3′ end of the rightmost read is mapped to the template.