Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools

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Authors

Petr Danecek · Wellcome Sanger Institute

James Bonfield · Wellcome Sanger Institute

Jennifer Liddle · Wellcome Sanger Institute

John Marshall · University of Glasgow

Valeriu Ohan · Wellcome Sanger Institute

Martin Pollard · Wellcome Sanger Institute

Andrew Whitwham ·

Abstract

Both SAMtools and BCFtools are freely available on GitHub under the permissive MIT licence, free for both non-commercial and commercial use. Both packages have been installed >1 million times via Bioconda. The source code and documentation are available from https://www.htslib.org.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Gene expression and cancer classification Scientific Computing and Data Management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: GigaScience

Volume 10, Issue 2

DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab008

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 773.60