Binary package “pbbamtools” in ubuntu bionic
processing Pacific Biosciences binary alignment/map files
The BAM format is a binary, compressed, record-oriented container format
for raw or aligned sequence reads. The associated SAM format is a text
representation of the same data. The specifications for BAM/SAM are maintained
by the SAM/BAM Format Specification Working Group.
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PacBio-produced BAM files are fully compatible with the BAM specification,
but makes use of the extensibility mechanisms of the BAM specification to
encode PacBio-specific information.
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This package provides command-line utilities for working with PacBio BAM
files.