Samtools

Samtools are a set of utilities that manipulate alignments in SAM, BAM, and CRAM file formats. It manages conversions between formats, handles sorting, merging, indexing, and can retrieve reads in any region swiftly. It treats any input as stdin and output as stdout.

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Note several other tools load with this module and can be seen running the following command: report_subtools.sh samtools

For additional information please see the documentation

Parallel Capabilities: Single core only.