CIGAR format
http://edamontology.org/format_3992
Compact Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report format is a compressed (run-length encoded) pairwise alignment format. It is useful for representing long (e.g. genomic) pairwise alignments.
Synonyms: CIGAR
Term info
Subsets
formats, edam
Created in
1.25
File extension
cigar
seeAlso
http://wiki.bits.vib.be/index.php/CIGAR/