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Pysam is a python module for reading and manipulating files in the
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SAM/BAM format. The SAM/BAM format is a way to store efficiently large
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numbers of alignments (Li 2009), such as those routinely created by
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next-generation sequencing methods.
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Pysam is a lightweight wrapper of the samtools_ C-API. Pysam also
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includes an interface for tabix.
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Reference: Li et al. Bioinformatics. 2009 Aug 15;25(16):2078-9.
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doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352.
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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools.
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