def filter_multimappers(align_file, data):
    """
    Filtering a BWA alignment file for uniquely mapped reads, from here:
    https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/508/obtaining-uniquely-mapped-reads-from-bwa-mem-alignment
    """
    config = dd.get_config(data)
    type_flag = "" if bam.is_bam(align_file) else "S"
    base, ext = os.path.splitext(align_file)
    out_file = base + ".unique" + ext
    bed_file = dd.get_variant_regions(data) or dd.get_sample_callable(data)
    bed_cmd = '-L {0}'.format(bed_file) if bed_file else " "
    if utils.file_exists(out_file):
        return out_file
    base_filter = '-F "not unmapped {paired_filter} and not duplicate and [XA] == null and [SA] == null and not supplementary " '
    if bam.is_paired(align_file):
        paired_filter = "and paired and proper_pair"
    else:
        paired_filter = ""
    filter_string = base_filter.format(paired_filter=paired_filter)
    sambamba = config_utils.get_program("sambamba", config)
    num_cores = dd.get_num_cores(data)
    with file_transaction(out_file) as tx_out_file:
        cmd = ('{sambamba} view -h{type_flag} '
               '--nthreads {num_cores} '
               '-f bam {bed_cmd} '
               '{filter_string} '
               '{align_file} '
               '> {tx_out_file}')
        message = "Removing multimapped reads from %s." % align_file
        do.run(cmd.format(**locals()), message)
    bam.index(out_file, config)
    return out_file
Filtering a BWA alignment file for uniquely mapped reads, from here:
    https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/508/obtaining-uniquely-mapped-reads-from-bwa-mem-alignment