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SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing
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large nucleotide sequence alignments. The original samtools package has
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been split into three separate but tightly coordinated projects: htslib
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(C library for handling high-throughput sequencing data), samtools (for
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handling SAM, BAM, CRAM), and bcftools (for handling VCF and BCF).
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Samtools is now distributed as an individual package. Installation is
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set up so that the code uses an external HTSlib (also at SBo). Although
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deprecated upstream, in the case that people need parts of
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samtools-legacy (e.g header files or libbam) these can be installed from
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this package by modifying the samtools.Slackbuild. Note that the sam.h
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of htslib differs from sam.h coming with samtools.
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Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were
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distributed in a single samtools-0.1.x package. This old version remains
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available from SBo as samtools-legacy.
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