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NAME
samtools - Utilities for the Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format
bcftools - Utilities for the Binary Call Format (BCF) and VCF
SYNOPSIS
samtools view -bt ref_list.txt -o aln.bam aln.sam.gz
samtools sort aln.bam aln.sorted
samtools index aln.sorted.bam
samtools idxstats aln.sorted.bam
samtools view aln.sorted.bam chr2:20,100,000-20,200,000
samtools merge out.bam in1.bam in2.bam in3.bam
samtools faidx ref.fasta
samtools pileup -vcf ref.fasta aln.sorted.bam
samtools mpileup -C50 -gf ref.fasta -r chr3:1,000-2,000 in1.bam in2.bam
samtools tview aln.sorted.bam ref.fasta
bcftools index in.bcf
bcftools view in.bcf chr2:100-200 > out.vcf
bcftools view -Nvm0.99 in.bcf > out.vcf 2> out.afs
DESCRIPTION
Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate alignments in the BAM format. It imports from and exports
to the SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows to retrieve
reads in any regions swiftly.
Samtools is designed to work on a stream. It regards an input file `-' as the standard input (stdin) and
an output file `-' as the standard output (stdout). Several commands can thus be combined with Unix
pipes. Samtools always output warning and error messages to the standard error output (stderr).
Samtools is also able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP or HTTP server if the BAM file name
starts with `ftp://' or `http://'. Samtools checks the current working directory for the index file and
will download the index upon absence. Samtools does not retrieve the entire alignment file unless it is
asked to do so.
SAMTOOLS COMMANDS AND OPTIONS
view samtools view [-bchuHS] [-t in.refList] [-o output] [-f reqFlag] [-F skipFlag] [-q minMapQ] [-l
library] [-r readGroup] [-R rgFile] <in.bam>|<in.sam> [region1 [...]]
Extract/print all or sub alignments in SAM or BAM format. If no region is specified, all the
alignments will be printed; otherwise only alignments overlapping the specified regions will be
output. An alignment may be given multiple times if it is overlapping several regions. A region
can be presented, for example, in the following format: `chr2' (the whole chr2), `chr2:1000000'
(region starting from 1,000,000bp) or `chr2:1,000,000-2,000,000' (region between 1,000,000 and
2,000,000bp including the end points). The coordinate is 1-based.
OPTIONS:
-b Output in the BAM format.
-f INT Only output alignments with all bits in INT present in the FLAG field. INT can be in
hex in the format of /^0x[0-9A-F]+/ [0]
-F INT Skip alignments with bits present in INT [0]
-h Include the header in the output.
-H Output the header only.
-l STR Only output reads in library STR [null]
-o FILE Output file [stdout]
-q INT Skip alignments with MAPQ smaller than INT [0]
-r STR Only output reads in read group STR [null]
-R FILE Output reads in read groups listed in FILE [null]
-s FLOAT Fraction of templates/pairs to subsample; the integer part is treated as the seed for
the random number generator [-1]
-S Input is in SAM. If @SQ header lines are absent, the `-t' option is required.
-c Instead of printing the alignments, only count them and print the total number. All
filter options, such as `-f', `-F' and `-q' , are taken into account.
-t FILE This file is TAB-delimited. Each line must contain the reference name and the length
of the reference, one line for each distinct reference; additional fields are
ignored. This file also defines the order of the reference sequences in sorting. If
you run `samtools faidx <ref.fa>', the resultant index file <ref.fa>.fai can be used
as this <in.ref_list> file.
-u Output uncompressed BAM. This option saves time spent on compression/decomprssion and
is thus preferred when the output is piped to another samtools command.
tview samtools tview [-p chr:pos] [-s STR] [-d display] <in.sorted.bam> [ref.fasta]
Text alignment viewer (based on the ncurses library). In the viewer, press `?' for help and
press `g' to check the alignment start from a region in the format like `chr10:10,000,000' or
`=10,000,000' when viewing the same reference sequence.
Options:
-d display Output as (H)tml or (C)urses or (T)ext
-p chr:pos Go directly to this position
-s STR Display only reads from this sample or read group
mpileup samtools mpileup [-EBugp] [-C capQcoef] [-r reg] [-f in.fa] [-l list] [-M capMapQ] [-Q
minBaseQ] [-q minMapQ] in.bam [in2.bam [...]]
Generate BCF or pileup for one or multiple BAM files. Alignment records are grouped by sample
identifiers in @RG header lines. If sample identifiers are absent, each input file is regarded
as one sample.
In the pileup format (without -uor-g), each line represents a genomic position, consisting of
chromosome name, coordinate, reference base, read bases, read qualities and alignment mapping
qualities. Information on match, mismatch, indel, strand, mapping quality and start and end of
a read are all encoded at the read base column. At this column, a dot stands for a match to the
reference base on the forward strand, a comma for a match on the reverse strand, a '>' or '<'
for a reference skip, `ACGTN' for a mismatch on the forward strand and `acgtn' for a mismatch
on the reverse strand. A pattern `\+[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' indicates there is an insertion
between this reference position and the next reference position. The length of the insertion is
given by the integer in the pattern, followed by the inserted sequence. Similarly, a pattern
`-[0-9]+[ACGTNacgtn]+' represents a deletion from the reference. The deleted bases will be
presented as `*' in the following lines. Also at the read base column, a symbol `^' marks the
start of a read. The ASCII of the character following `^' minus 33 gives the mapping quality. A
symbol `$' marks the end of a read segment.
Input Options:
-6 Assume the quality is in the Illumina 1.3+ encoding. -A Do not skip anomalous read
pairs in variant calling.
-B Disable probabilistic realignment for the computation of base alignment quality
(BAQ). BAQ is the Phred-scaled probability of a read base being misaligned. Applying
this option greatly helps to reduce false SNPs caused by misalignments.
-b FILE List of input BAM files, one file per line [null]
-C INT Coefficient for downgrading mapping quality for reads containing excessive
mismatches. Given a read with a phred-scaled probability q of being generated from
the mapped position, the new mapping quality is about sqrt((INT-q)/INT)*INT. A zero
value disables this functionality; if enabled, the recommended value for BWA is 50.
[0]
-d INT At a position, read maximally INT reads per input BAM. [250]
-E Extended BAQ computation. This option helps sensitivity especially for MNPs, but may
hurt specificity a little bit.
-f FILE The faidx-indexed reference file in the FASTA format. The file can be optionally
compressed by razip. [null]
-l FILE BED or position list file containing a list of regions or sites where pileup or BCF
should be generated [null]
-q INT Minimum mapping quality for an alignment to be used [0]
-Q INT Minimum base quality for a base to be considered [13]
-r STR Only generate pileup in region STR [all sites]
Output Options:
-D Output per-sample read depth
-g Compute genotype likelihoods and output them in the binary call format (BCF).
-S Output per-sample Phred-scaled strand bias P-value
-u Similar to -g except that the output is uncompressed BCF, which is preferred for
piping.
Options for Genotype Likelihood Computation (for -g or -u):
-e INT Phred-scaled gap extension sequencing error probability. Reducing INT leads to longer
indels. [20]
-h INT Coefficient for modeling homopolymer errors. Given an l-long homopolymer run, the
sequencing error of an indel of size s is modeled as INT*s/l. [100]
-I Do not perform INDEL calling
-L INT Skip INDEL calling if the average per-sample depth is above INT. [250]
-o INT Phred-scaled gap open sequencing error probability. Reducing INT leads to more indel
calls. [40]
-p Apply -m and -F thresholds per sample to increase sensitivity of calling. By default
both options are applied to reads pooled from all samples.
-P STR Comma dilimited list of platforms (determined by @RG-PL) from which indel candidates
are obtained. It is recommended to collect indel candidates from sequencing
technologies that have low indel error rate such as ILLUMINA. [all]
reheader samtools reheader <in.header.sam> <in.bam>
Replace the header in in.bam with the header in in.header.sam. This command is much faster
than replacing the header with a BAM->SAM->BAM conversion.
cat samtools cat [-h header.sam] [-o out.bam] <in1.bam> <in2.bam> [ ... ]
Concatenate BAMs. The sequence dictionary of each input BAM must be identical, although this
command does not check this. This command uses a similar trick to reheader which enables fast
BAM concatenation.
sort samtools sort [-nof] [-m maxMem] <in.bam> <out.prefix>
Sort alignments by leftmost coordinates. File <out.prefix>.bam will be created. This command
may also create temporary files <out.prefix>.%d.bam when the whole alignment cannot be fitted
into memory (controlled by option -m).
OPTIONS:
-o Output the final alignment to the standard output.
-n Sort by read names rather than by chromosomal coordinates
-f Use <out.prefix> as the full output path and do not append .bam suffix.
-m INT Approximately the maximum required memory. [500000000]
merge samtools merge [-nur1f] [-h inh.sam] [-R reg] <out.bam> <in1.bam> <in2.bam> [...]
Merge multiple sorted alignments. The header reference lists of all the input BAM files, and
the @SQ headers of inh.sam, if any, must all refer to the same set of reference sequences. The
header reference list and (unless overridden by -h) `@' headers of in1.bam will be copied to
out.bam, and the headers of other files will be ignored.
OPTIONS:
-1 Use zlib compression level 1 to comrpess the output
-f Force to overwrite the output file if present.
-h FILE Use the lines of FILE as `@' headers to be copied to out.bam, replacing any header
lines that would otherwise be copied from in1.bam. (FILE is actually in SAM format,
though any alignment records it may contain are ignored.)
-n The input alignments are sorted by read names rather than by chromosomal coordinates
-R STR Merge files in the specified region indicated by STR [null]
-r Attach an RG tag to each alignment. The tag value is inferred from file names.
-u Uncompressed BAM output
index samtools index <aln.bam>
Index sorted alignment for fast random access. Index file <aln.bam>.bai will be created.
idxstats samtools idxstats <aln.bam>
Retrieve and print stats in the index file. The output is TAB delimited with each line
consisting of reference sequence name, sequence length, # mapped reads and # unmapped reads.
faidx samtools faidx <ref.fasta> [region1 [...]]
Index reference sequence in the FASTA format or extract subsequence from indexed reference
sequence. If no region is specified, faidx will index the file and create <ref.fasta>.fai on
the disk. If regions are speficified, the subsequences will be retrieved and printed to stdout
in the FASTA format. The input file can be compressed in the RAZF format.
fixmate samtools fixmate <in.nameSrt.bam> <out.bam>
Fill in mate coordinates, ISIZE and mate related flags from a name-sorted alignment.
rmdup samtools rmdup [-sS] <input.srt.bam> <out.bam>
Remove potential PCR duplicates: if multiple read pairs have identical external coordinates,
only retain the pair with highest mapping quality. In the paired-end mode, this command ONLY
works with FR orientation and requires ISIZE is correctly set. It does not work for unpaired
reads (e.g. two ends mapped to different chromosomes or orphan reads).
OPTIONS:
-s Remove duplicate for single-end reads. By default, the command works for paired-end
reads only.
-S Treat paired-end reads and single-end reads.
calmd samtools calmd [-EeubSr] [-C capQcoef] <aln.bam> <ref.fasta>
Generate the MD tag. If the MD tag is already present, this command will give a warning if the
MD tag generated is different from the existing tag. Output SAM by default.
OPTIONS:
-A When used jointly with -r this option overwrites the original base quality.
-e Convert a the read base to = if it is identical to the aligned reference base. Indel
caller does not support the = bases at the moment.
-u Output uncompressed BAM
-b Output compressed BAM
-S The input is SAM with header lines
-C INT Coefficient to cap mapping quality of poorly mapped reads. See the pileup command for
details. [0]
-r Compute the BQ tag (without -A) or cap base quality by BAQ (with -A).
-E Extended BAQ calculation. This option trades specificity for sensitivity, though the
effect is minor.
targetcut samtools targetcut [-Q minBaseQ] [-i inPenalty] [-0 em0] [-1 em1] [-2 em2] [-f ref] <in.bam>
This command identifies target regions by examining the continuity of read depth, computes
haploid consensus sequences of targets and outputs a SAM with each sequence corresponding to a
target. When option -f is in use, BAQ will be applied. This command is only designed for
cutting fosmid clones from fosmid pool sequencing [Ref. Kitzman et al. (2010)].
phase samtools phase [-AF] [-k len] [-b prefix] [-q minLOD] [-Q minBaseQ] <in.bam>
Call and phase heterozygous SNPs. OPTIONS:
-A Drop reads with ambiguous phase.
-b STR Prefix of BAM output. When this option is in use, phase-0 reads will be saved in file
STR.0.bam and phase-1 reads in STR.1.bam. Phase unknown reads will be randomly
allocated to one of the two files. Chimeric reads with switch errors will be saved in
STR.chimeric.bam. [null]
-F Do not attempt to fix chimeric reads.
-k INT Maximum length for local phasing. [13]
-q INT Minimum Phred-scaled LOD to call a heterozygote. [40]
-Q INT Minimum base quality to be used in het calling. [13]
BCFTOOLS COMMANDS AND OPTIONS
view bcftools view [-AbFGNQSucgv] [-D seqDict] [-l listLoci] [-s listSample] [-i gapSNPratio] [-t
mutRate] [-p varThres] [-m varThres] [-P prior] [-1 nGroup1] [-d minFrac] [-U nPerm] [-X
permThres] [-T trioType] in.bcf [region]
Convert between BCF and VCF, call variant candidates and estimate allele frequencies.
Input/Output Options:
-A Retain all possible alternate alleles at variant sites. By default, the view command
discards unlikely alleles.
-b Output in the BCF format. The default is VCF.
-D FILE Sequence dictionary (list of chromosome names) for VCF->BCF conversion [null]
-F Indicate PL is generated by r921 or before (ordering is different).
-G Suppress all individual genotype information.
-l FILE List of sites at which information are outputted [all sites]
-N Skip sites where the REF field is not A/C/G/T
-Q Output the QCALL likelihood format
-s FILE List of samples to use. The first column in the input gives the sample names and the
second gives the ploidy, which can only be 1 or 2. When the 2nd column is absent, the
sample ploidy is assumed to be 2. In the output, the ordering of samples will be
identical to the one in FILE. [null]
-S The input is VCF instead of BCF.
-u Uncompressed BCF output (force -b).
Consensus/Variant Calling Options:
-c Call variants using Bayesian inference. This option automatically invokes option -e.
-d FLOAT When -v is in use, skip loci where the fraction of samples covered by reads is below
FLOAT. [0]
-e Perform max-likelihood inference only, including estimating the site allele
frequency, testing Hardy-Weinberg equlibrium and testing associations with LRT.
-g Call per-sample genotypes at variant sites (force -c)
-i FLOAT Ratio of INDEL-to-SNP mutation rate [0.15]
-m FLOAT New model for improved multiallelic and rare-variant calling. Another ALT allele is
accepted if P(chi^2) of LRT exceeds the FLOAT threshold. The parameter seems robust
and the actual value usually does not affect the results much; a good value to use is
0.99. This is the recommended calling method. [0]
-p FLOAT A site is considered to be a variant if P(ref|D)<FLOAT [0.5]
-P STR Prior or initial allele frequency spectrum. If STR can be full, cond2, flat or the
file consisting of error output from a previous variant calling run.
-t FLOAT Scaled muttion rate for variant calling [0.001]
-T STR Enable pair/trio calling. For trio calling, option -s is usually needed to be applied
to configure the trio members and their ordering. In the file supplied to the option
-s, the first sample must be the child, the second the father and the third the
mother. The valid values of STR are `pair', `trioauto', `trioxd' and `trioxs', where
`pair' calls differences between two input samples, and `trioxd' (`trioxs') specifies
that the input is from the X chromosome non-PAR regions and the child is a female
(male). [null]
-v Output variant sites only (force -c)
Contrast Calling and Association Test Options:
-1 INT Number of group-1 samples. This option is used for dividing the samples into two
groups for contrast SNP calling or association test. When this option is in use, the
following VCF INFO will be outputted: PC2, PCHI2 and QCHI2. [0]
-U INT Number of permutations for association test (effective only with -1) [0]
-X FLOAT Only perform permutations for P(chi^2)<FLOAT (effective only with -U) [0.01]
index bcftools index in.bcf
Index sorted BCF for random access.
cat bcftools cat in1.bcf [in2.bcf [...]]]
Concatenate BCF files. The input files are required to be sorted and have identical samples
appearing in the same order.
SAM FORMAT
Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is TAB-delimited. Apart from the header lines, which are started with
the `@' symbol, each alignment line consists of:
┌────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Col │ Field │ Description │
├────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ QNAME │ Query template/pair NAME │
│ 2 │ FLAG │ bitwise FLAG │
│ 3 │ RNAME │ Reference sequence NAME │
│ 4 │ POS │ 1-based leftmost POSition/coordinate of clipped sequence │
│ 5 │ MAPQ │ MAPping Quality (Phred-scaled) │
│ 6 │ CIAGR │ extended CIGAR string │
│ 7 │ MRNM │ Mate Reference sequence NaMe (`=' if same as RNAME) │
│ 8 │ MPOS │ 1-based Mate POSistion │
│ 9 │ TLEN │ inferred Template LENgth (insert size) │
│10 │ SEQ │ query SEQuence on the same strand as the reference │
│11 │ QUAL │ query QUALity (ASCII-33 gives the Phred base quality) │
│12+ │ OPT │ variable OPTional fields in the format TAG:VTYPE:VALUE │
└────┴───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Each bit in the FLAG field is defined as:
┌───────┬─────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Flag │ Chr │ Description │
├───────┼─────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│0x0001 │ p │ the read is paired in sequencing │
│0x0002 │ P │ the read is mapped in a proper pair │
│0x0004 │ u │ the query sequence itself is unmapped │
│0x0008 │ U │ the mate is unmapped │
│0x0010 │ r │ strand of the query (1 for reverse) │
│0x0020 │ R │ strand of the mate │
│0x0040 │ 1 │ the read is the first read in a pair │
│0x0080 │ 2 │ the read is the second read in a pair │
│0x0100 │ s │ the alignment is not primary │
│0x0200 │ f │ the read fails platform/vendor quality checks │
│0x0400 │ d │ the read is either a PCR or an optical duplicate │
└───────┴─────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
where the second column gives the string representation of the FLAG field.
VCF FORMAT
The Variant Call Format (VCF) is a TAB-delimited format with each data line consists of the following
fields:
┌────┬────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Col │ Field │ Description │
├────┼────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ CHROM │ CHROMosome name │
│ 2 │ POS │ the left-most POSition of the variant │
│ 3 │ ID │ unique variant IDentifier │
│ 4 │ REF │ the REFerence allele │
│ 5 │ ALT │ the ALTernate allele(s), separated by comma │
│ 6 │ QUAL │ variant/reference QUALity │
│ 7 │ FILTER │ FILTers applied │
│ 8 │ INFO │ INFOrmation related to the variant, separated by semi-colon │
│ 9 │ FORMAT │ FORMAT of the genotype fields, separated by colon (optional) │
│10+ │ SAMPLE │ SAMPLE genotypes and per-sample information (optional) │
└────┴────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The following table gives the INFO tags used by samtools and bcftools.
┌──────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Tag │ Format │ Description │
├──────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
└──────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
EXAMPLES
o Import SAM to BAM when @SQ lines are present in the header:
samtools view -bS aln.sam > aln.bam
If @SQ lines are absent:
samtools faidx ref.fa
samtools view -bt ref.fa.fai aln.sam > aln.bam
where ref.fa.fai is generated automatically by the faidx command.
o Attach the RG tag while merging sorted alignments:
perl -e 'print "@RG\tID:ga\tSM:hs\tLB:ga\tPL:Illumina\n@RG\tID:454\tSM:hs\tLB:454\tPL:454\n"' >
rg.txt
samtools merge -rh rg.txt merged.bam ga.bam 454.bam
The value in a RG tag is determined by the file name the read is coming from. In this example, in the
merged.bam, reads from ga.bam will be attached RG:Z:ga, while reads from 454.bam will be attached
RG:Z:454.
o Call SNPs and short INDELs for one diploid individual:
samtools mpileup -ugf ref.fa aln.bam | bcftools view -bvcg - > var.raw.bcf
bcftools view var.raw.bcf | vcfutils.pl varFilter -D 100 > var.flt.vcf
The -D option of varFilter controls the maximum read depth, which should be adjusted to about twice the
average read depth. One may consider to add -C50 to mpileup if mapping quality is overestimated for
reads containing excessive mismatches. Applying this option usually helps BWA-short but may not other
mappers.
o Generate the consensus sequence for one diploid individual:
samtools mpileup -uf ref.fa aln.bam | bcftools view -cg - | vcfutils.pl vcf2fq > cns.fq
o Call somatic mutations from a pair of samples:
samtools mpileup -DSuf ref.fa aln.bam | bcftools view -bvcgT pair - > var.bcf
In the output INFO field, CLR gives the Phred-log ratio between the likelihood by treating the two
samples independently, and the likelihood by requiring the genotype to be identical. This CLR is
effectively a score measuring the confidence of somatic calls. The higher the better.
o Call de novo and somatic mutations from a family trio:
samtools mpileup -DSuf ref.fa aln.bam | bcftools view -bvcgT pair -s samples.txt - > var.bcf
File samples.txt should consist of three lines specifying the member and order of samples (in the order
of child-father-mother). Similarly, CLR gives the Phred-log likelihood ratio with and without the trio
constraint. UGT shows the most likely genotype configuration without the trio constraint, and CGT
gives the most likely genotype configuration satisfying the trio constraint.
o Phase one individual:
samtools calmd -AEur aln.bam ref.fa | samtools phase -b prefix - > phase.out
The calmd command is used to reduce false heterozygotes around INDELs.
o Call SNPs and short indels for multiple diploid individuals:
samtools mpileup -P ILLUMINA -ugf ref.fa *.bam | bcftools view -bcvg - > var.raw.bcf
bcftools view var.raw.bcf | vcfutils.pl varFilter -D 2000 > var.flt.vcf
Individuals are identified from the SM tags in the @RG header lines. Individuals can be pooled in one
alignment file; one individual can also be separated into multiple files. The -P option specifies that
indel candidates should be collected only from read groups with the @RG-PL tag set to ILLUMINA.
Collecting indel candidates from reads sequenced by an indel-prone technology may affect the
performance of indel calling.
Note that there is a new calling model which can be invoked by
bcftools view -m0.99 ...
which fixes some severe limitations of the default method.
For filtering, best results seem to be achieved by first applying the SnpGap filter and then applying
some machine learning approach
vcf-annotate -f SnpGap=n
vcf filter ...
Both can be found in the vcftools and htslib package (links below).
o Derive the allele frequency spectrum (AFS) on a list of sites from multiple individuals:
samtools mpileup -Igf ref.fa *.bam > all.bcf
bcftools view -bl sites.list all.bcf > sites.bcf
bcftools view -cGP cond2 sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.1.afs
bcftools view -cGP sites.1.afs sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.2.afs
bcftools view -cGP sites.2.afs sites.bcf > /dev/null 2> sites.3.afs
......
where sites.list contains the list of sites with each line consisting of the reference sequence name
and position. The following bcftools commands estimate AFS by EM.
o Dump BAQ applied alignment for other SNP callers:
samtools calmd -bAr aln.bam > aln.baq.bam
It adds and corrects the NM and MD tags at the same time. The calmd command also comes with the -C
option, the same as the one in pileup and mpileup. Apply if it helps.
LIMITATIONS
o Unaligned words used in bam_import.c, bam_endian.h, bam.c and bam_aux.c.
o Samtools paired-end rmdup does not work for unpaired reads (e.g. orphan reads or ends mapped to
different chromosomes). If this is a concern, please use Picard's MarkDuplicate which correctly handles
these cases, although a little slower.
AUTHOR
Heng Li from the Sanger Institute wrote the C version of samtools. Bob Handsaker from the Broad Institute
implemented the BGZF library and Jue Ruan from Beijing Genomics Institute wrote the RAZF library. John
Marshall and Petr Danecek contribute to the source code and various people from the 1000 Genomes Project
have contributed to the SAM format specification.
SEE ALSO
Samtools website: <http://samtools.sourceforge.net> Samtools latest source: <https://github.com/samtools/samtools> VCFtools website with stable link to VCF specification: <http://vcftools.sourceforge.net> HTSlib website: <https://github.com/samtools/htslib>