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Pysam is a Python module for reading and manipulating SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.

Installation

To install this package, run one of the following:

Conda
$conda install bioconda::pysam

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Summary

Pysam is a Python module for reading and manipulating SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.

Last Updated

Jun 11, 2025 at 01:37

License

MIT

Total Downloads

7.8M

Supported Platforms

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