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| + | SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM aims to be a format that: | ||
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| + | * Is flexible enough to store all the alignment information generated by various alignment programs; | ||
| + | * Is simple enough to be easily generated by alignment programs or converted from existing alignment formats; | ||
| + | * Is compact in file size; | ||
| + | * Allows most of operations on the alignment to work on a stream without loading the whole alignment into memory; | ||
| + | * Allows the file to be indexed by genomic position to efficiently retrieve all reads aligning to a locus. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:01, 5 May 2010
| URL describes | SAM |
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| URL | http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf |
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SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM aims to be a format that:
- Is flexible enough to store all the alignment information generated by various alignment programs;
- Is simple enough to be easily generated by alignment programs or converted from existing alignment formats;
- Is compact in file size;
- Allows most of operations on the alignment to work on a stream without loading the whole alignment into memory;
- Allows the file to be indexed by genomic position to efficiently retrieve all reads aligning to a locus.
