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BAM

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BAM format, the binary, BGZF-formatted compressed version of SAM format for alignment of nucleotide sequences (e.g. sequencing reads) to (a) reference sequence(s). May contain base-call and alignment qualities and other data.

Term info

Subsets

formats, edam

Created in

beta12orEarlier

Documentation

https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf

hasDbXref

https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf