SAM (file format)
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sam-file-format-202-18492095
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SAM (file format)
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Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) is a text-based format originally for storing biological sequences aligned to a reference sequence developed by Heng Li and Bob Handsaker et al. It was developed when the 1000 Genomes Project wanted to move away from the MAQ mapper format and decided to design a new format. The overall TAB-delimited flavour of the format came from an earlier format inspired by BLAT’s PSL. The name of SAM came from Gabor Marth from University of Utah, who originally had a format under
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File format for gene sequences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_(file_format)
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2024-01-30T13:02:58Z
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