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SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) is a flexible generic format for storing nucleotide sequence alignment. SAMtools provide efficient utilities on manipulating alignments in the SAM format.

The main samtools source code repository moved to GitHub in March 2012. For ongoing development since then, see http://github.com/samtools/samtools

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kurioz Posted 2014-01-30

A core component of many a bioinformatics pipeline
bakerwm Posted 2013-12-18

Error: $./samtools: /lib64/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not found (required by ./samtools) How can I fix this problem? THX
diekhans Edited 2013-11-06

Brilliant idea, code is not robust. Doesn't check return status of malloc, other libraries. One shouldn't have to use gdb to understand an expected error.

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saramills Posted 2013-06-26

Nice, thank you

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hibiz Posted 2013-04-07

Wonderful project! Thanks for amazing work!

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Intended Audience

Developers, Science/Research

User Interface

Command-line, Curses/Ncurses

Programming Language

C, Perl

Related Categories

Perl Bio-Informatics Software, C Bio-Informatics Software

Registered

2008-11-25

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