SAM/BAM file utilities and header manipulation.

This module provides utilities for working with SAM/BAM files, including:

• Checking and validating SAM header sort orders
• Reversing and reverse-complementing per-base tag values
• Template-coordinate sorting validation
• Test utilities for building SAM/BAM records
• Record-level utilities (position mapping, FR pair detection, CIGAR parsing)
• Read-pair clipping utilities

Sort Orders

The module supports several important sort orders:

• queryname - Reads sorted by query name (required for grouping by UMI)
• template-coordinate - Special sort order from fgbio where reads are grouped by query name but ordered by genomic position within each template

Tag Manipulation

Functions are provided to reverse or reverse-complement per-base tag values when reads are mapped to the negative strand, ensuring tag values match the orientation of the read sequence.

Record Utilities

The [record_utils] submodule provides utilities for working with individual records:

• [record_utils::read_pos_at_ref_pos] - Map reference position to read position
• [record_utils::is_fr_pair_from_tags] - Check if read is part of FR pair using tags
• [record_utils::mate_unclipped_start] / [record_utils::mate_unclipped_end] - Get mate boundaries from MC tag
• [record_utils::num_bases_extending_past_mate] - Calculate overlap with mate
• [record_utils::parse_cigar_string] - Parse CIGAR string to operations