Merge pull request #378 from mikej888/clarify-dedup-read-selection-text

Clarified Selecting the representative read documentation
CGATOxford · Oct 31, 2019 · 5e99b63 · 5e99b63
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 1. The read with the lowest number of mapping coordinates (see
 ``--multimapping-detection-method`` option)
 
-2. The read with the highest mapping quality
+2. The read with the highest mapping quality. Note that this is not
+the read sequencing quality and that if two reads have the same
+mapping quality then one will be picked at random regardless of the
+read quality.
 
 Otherwise a read is chosen at random.