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diff --git a/academic/pysam/README b/academic/pysam/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..605936f076 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/pysam/README @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Pysam is a python module for reading and manipulating files in the +SAM/BAM format. The SAM/BAM format is a way to store efficiently large +numbers of alignments (`Li 2009`_), such as those routinely created by +next-generation sequencing methods. + +Pysam is a lightweight wrapper of the samtools_ C-API. Pysam also +includes an interface for tabix_. |