Monday, January 31, 2011

SAM - Sequence Alignment/Map - generic alignment format

SUMMARY: The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is a generic alignment format for storing read alignments against reference sequences, supporting short and long reads (up to 128 Mbp) produced by different sequencing platforms. It is flexible in style, compact in size, efficient in random access and is the format in which alignments from the 1000 Genomes Project are released.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505943

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