I still haven't found an easy solution to this problem and I am afraid I'm going to have to write one my own - which makes little sense as I bet this has been solved thousands of times!
Can anybody point me to a script/software to convert a samtools pileup file into a fasta consensus file? It would be nice to set coverage thresholds, etc... but I'll take anything I can work with.
The best google could do for me was this:
Not that helpful,
-John
P.S. If there is a better way of doing this (something other than samtools) I'm all ears.