Ah - I missed this was on the Galaxy list, sorry.

I think that Galaxy automatically coordinate sorts "bam" files,
which is generally a good thing bar cases like yours. This
problem has undoubtedly come up before - an "unsortedbam"
datatype may be needed...

Peter

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Alistair Chilcott
<alistair.chilc...@utas.edu.au> wrote:
> I guess that is my point .. at a command prompt that can be
> achieved ( and gives the result they need ) but as far as I can
> see the same is not true via the Galaxy GUI ( unless there is
> a tool I am missing)
>
> They have 96 separate files to process hence the desire to use a workflow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cock [mailto:p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2014 2:27 PM
> To: Alistair Chilcott
> Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] BAM to SAM tool no way to get an unsorted SAM?
>
> Do you mean a SAM/BAM file sorted by read name?
> If so, try samtools sort -n ... instead.
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Alistair Chilcott 
> <alistair.chilc...@utas.edu.au> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My users are trying to use a tool called bismark and it requires an
>> unsorted SAM file for one of its steps
>>
>> Previous steps produce BAM files so we would like to include the tool 
>> BAM-to-SAM as a step in the workflow unfortunately it seems to be set to 
>> sort by default and there is no way to alter this behaviour.
>>
>> Is there another tool that would convert a BAM to a SAM without sorting it 
>> or can the BAM-to-SAM tool be altered to include a checkbox for an unsorted 
>> result?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>
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