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diff --git a/academic/pysam/README b/academic/pysam/README index 605936f076..c21a4ed81d 100644 --- a/academic/pysam/README +++ b/academic/pysam/README @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ 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 +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_. +includes an interface for tabix. + +Reference: Li et al. Bioinformatics. 2009 Aug 15;25(16):2078-9. +doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352. +The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools. |