Body: <p>I have some .bam files and I also got featureCounts by Subread. But after getting the featureCounts I realized that among my bam files 2 of them actually belong to the same sample. So I wonder if I can remove the result of these two and after merging bam files add them again into featureCounts without doing all the featureCounts for other samples again.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It sounds like you are supplying multiple BAMs to featureCounts, while this is possible I think it's better to run featureCounts on each BAM separately and then use a Python script or `cbind` function in R as mentioned above to combine the results of multiple samples. This shall give you more flexibility.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Phoenix Mu
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Comments.Text: Yeah thanks for the answers. As ATpoint mentioned I realized that featureCounts doesn't need much computational power and time. And good to know I can merge with Python or R script.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Baran Aldemir
Tags: <subread>
Title: Is it possible to add one more sample to the result of featureCounts?
ThreadText: # Is it possible to add one more sample to the result of featureCounts?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-30)
  
  I have some .bam files and I also got featureCounts by Subread. But after getting the featureCounts I realized that among my bam files 2 of them actually belong to the same sample. So I wonder if I can remove the result of these two and after merging bam files add them again into featureCounts without doing all the featureCounts for other samples again.
  
  **Tags:** subread
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It sounds like you are supplying multiple BAMs to featureCounts, while this is possible I think it's better to run featureCounts on each BAM separately and then use a Python script or `cbind` function in R as mentioned above to combine the results of multiple samples. This shall give you more flexibility.  
  > **username_0**: Yeah thanks for the answers. As ATpoint mentioned I realized that featureCounts doesn't need much computational power and time. And good to know I can merge with Python or R script.  
  
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