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SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.
 
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==Available versions==
 
==Available versions==
 
* 0.1.16
 
* 0.1.16

Revision as of 02:00, 10 August 2012

Description

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SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.

Available versions

  • 0.1.16
  • 0.1.18 (default)

Note: The Samtools 0.1.18 install includes the tabix and bgzip binaries from the Tabix-0.2.6 software.

Running the application using modules

To use samtools with the environment modules system at HPC the following commands are available:

Get module information for samtools:

$module spider samtools

Load the default application module:

$module load samtools

The modulefile for this software adds the directory with executable files to the shell execution PATH and sets the following environment variables:

  • HPC_SAMTOOLS_DIR - directory where samtools is located.
  • HPC_SAMTOOLS_BIN - executable directory