pysam
Pysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
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Description
Pysam is a python module for reading and manipulating files in the SAM/BAM format. The SAM/BAM format is a way to store efficiently large numbers of alignments (Li 2009), such as those routinely created by next-generation sequencing methods.
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Summary
Pysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
Last Updated
Dec 17, 2024 at 09:19
License
MIT
Total Downloads
16.1K
Supported Platforms
macOS-arm64
linux-64
linux-aarch64
macOS-64
linux-s390x
GitHub Repository
https://github.com/pysam-developers/pysamDocumentation
https://pysam.readthedocs.io