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Samtools

Samtools can be used to manipulate NGS data. The bundle packages version 1.22.1.

Usage example

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

module load samtools

The module makes the following commands available:

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bgzip
samtools
tabix

The samtools_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.

Run pet list -t samtools for a list of examples. The examples were taken from Wayne University.

Performance notes

No performance notes available

Samtools should be run on a system with at least 64 GB of RAM and 8 threads.

Benchmarks

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials

  • No community guides available.

Official site and documentation

Licensing information

Samtools is licensed under the MIT/Expat license.

Primary citation

Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools Petr Danecek, James K Bonfield, Jennifer Liddle, John Marshall, Valeriu Ohan, Martin O Pollard, Andrew Whitwham, Thomas Keane, Shane A McCarthy, Robert M Davies, Heng Li GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2021, giab008, doi

External guides and resources

  • If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za