[BioLib-dev] [emboss-dev] EMBOSS 6.3.0 released - SAM/BAM

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Fri Jul 16 13:36:02 UTC 2010


On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote:

> EMBOSS has just recently added SAM/BAM support. I am looking at adding
> SAM/BAM support for the Bio* languages - BioRuby, BioPerl, BioPython
> and BioJava.
> 
> There are three interesting implementations of BAM/SAM support. The
> Picard library (Java), Samtools API (C) and EMBOSS (C). 

Doesn't Picard use the Samtools API?  It's listed under the lang bindings for SAMTools:

http://samtools.sourceforge.net/

chris



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