slackbuilds_ponce/academic/samtools

SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large 
nucleotide sequence alignments. The original samtools package has been split 
into three separate but tightly coordinated projects: htslib (C library for 
handling high-throughput sequencing data), samtools (for handling SAM, BAM, 
CRAM), and bcftools (for handling VCF and BCF).

Samtools is now distributed as an individual package. Installation is set up 
so that the code uses an external HTSlib (also at SBo). Although deprecated 
upstream, in the case that people need parts of samtools-legacy (e.g header 
files or libbam) these can be installed from this package by modifying the 
samtools.Slackbuild. Note that the sam.h of htslib differs from sam.h coming 
with samtools.

Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed 
in a single samtools-0.1.x package. This old version remains available from 
SBo as samtools-legacy.