samcomp 0.10 – Compression for SAM/BAM file format

samcomp 0.10

:: DESCRIPTION

samcomp is a simple arithmetic coding based compressor for the SAM and BAM (DNA sequence alignment) file format.

::DEVELOPER

James K. Bonfield (jkb@sanger.ac.uk), Matt Mahoney

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux
  • C++ Compiler

:: DOWNLOAD

 samcomp

:: MORE INFORMATION

 Citation

Bonfield JK, Mahoney MV (2013)
Compression of FASTQ and SAM Format Sequencing Data. 
PLoS ONE 8(3): e59190. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059190