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bamrescue

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Utility to check BAM files for corruption and repair by skipping corrupted BGZF blocks

Installation

To install this package, run one of the following:

Conda
$conda install bioconda::bamrescue

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Description

bamrescue is a command-line tool that inspects Binary Alignment/Map (BAM) files for corruption. It leverages the BGZF structure (concatenated gzip blocks) to skip over corrupted sections using CRC32 checksums, rescuing as much valid data as possible.

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Summary

Utility to check BAM files for corruption and repair by skipping corrupted BGZF blocks

Last Updated

Sep 14, 2025 at 08:23

License

ISC

Total Downloads

381

Supported Platforms

linux-64
macOS-64
linux-aarch64
macOS-arm64