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authorRob van Nues <sborg63@disroot.org>2020-01-02 19:49:02 -0600
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2020-01-02 23:33:50 -0600
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academic/samtools: Updated for version 1.10.
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-Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed
-in a single samtools-0.1.x package.
-This old version remains available from SBo as samtools-legacy
+SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large
+nucleotide sequence alignments. The original samtools package has been split
+into three separate but tightly coordinated projects: htslib (C library for
+handling high-throughput sequencing data), samtools (for handling SAM, BAM,
+CRAM), and bcftools (for handling VCF and BCF).
-Samtools is now distributed as an individual package.
-Installation is set up so that the code uses an external HTSlib (also at SBo).
-Although deprecated upstream, in the case that people need parts of samtools-legacy
-(e.g header files or libbam) these can be installed from this package by modifying
-the samtools.Slackbuild.
+Samtools is now distributed as an individual package. Installation is set up
+so that the code uses an external HTSlib (also at SBo). Although deprecated
+upstream, in the case that people need parts of samtools-legacy (e.g header
+files or libbam) these can be installed from this package by modifying the
+samtools.Slackbuild. Note that the sam.h of htslib differs from sam.h coming
+with samtools.
-Note that the sam.h of htslib differs from sam.h coming with samtools.
+Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed
+in a single samtools-0.1.x package. This old version remains available from
+SBo as samtools-legacy.