SAMTools

eagle-i ID

Resource Type

Properties

1. Resource Description

   "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."

2. Used by

   Massively Parallel Sequencing Shared Resource

3. Software purpose

   Sequence alignment objective

4. Website(s)

   http://samtools.sourceforge.net/

5. Related Technique

   Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing

6. Related Technique

   Sequencing