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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''BAM''' (Binary Alignment Map) is a data format used for mapping sequences of DNA. It is a compressed binary version of the data in the [[SAM]] format. It is classified as an alignment format, as is [[CRAM]]. This is as opposed to sequence-only, unaligned, formats such as [[FASTA and FASTQ]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''BAM''' (Binary Alignment Map) is a data format used for mapping sequences of DNA. It is a compressed binary version of the data in the [[SAM]] format. It is classified as an alignment format, as is [[CRAM]]. This is as opposed to sequence-only, unaligned, formats such as [[FASTA and FASTQ]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''BAM''' (Binary Alignment Map) is a data format used for mapping sequences of DNA. It is a compressed binary version of the data in the [[SAM]] format. It is classified as an alignment format, as is [[CRAM]]. This is as opposed to sequence-only, unaligned, formats such as [[FASTA and FASTQ]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''BAM''' (Binary Alignment Map) is a data format used for mapping sequences of DNA. It is a compressed binary version of the data in the [[SAM]] format. It is classified as an alignment format, as is [[CRAM]]. This is as opposed to sequence-only, unaligned, formats such as [[FASTA and FASTQ]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Specifications ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Specifications ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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'''BAM''' (Binary Alignment Map) is a data format used for mapping sequences of DNA. It is a compressed binary version of the data in the [[SAM]] format. It is classified as an alignment format, as is [[CRAM]]. This is as opposed to sequence-only, unaligned, formats such as [[FASTA and FASTQ]].&lt;br /&gt;
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BAM is compressed as a series of compressed blocks, each one a [[gzip]] archive. This is known as [[BGZF]] compression.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Specifications ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf SAM/BAM specification]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMtags.pdf Optional fields (tags) specification]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Links ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Wikipedia:SAM (file format)|Wikipedia article]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs HTS-Specs Github]&lt;br /&gt;
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