BAM (Binary Alignment Map)
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* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/lists/samtools-devel samtools-devel mailing list] | * [https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/lists/samtools-devel samtools-devel mailing list] | ||
Revision as of 02:17, 4 August 2020
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.
BAM is compressed as a series of compressed blocks, each one a gzip archive. This is known as BGZF compression.
