Authors
Artem Tarasov, Albert J Vilella, Edwin Cuppen, Isaac J Nijman, Pjotr Prins
Publication date
2015/6/15
Journal
Bioinformatics
Volume
31
Issue
12
Pages
2032-2034
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Summary: Sambamba is a high-performance robust tool and library for working with SAM, BAM and CRAM sequence alignment files; the most common file formats for aligned next generation sequencing data. Sambamba is a faster alternative to samtools that exploits multi-core processing and dramatically reduces processing time. Sambamba is being adopted at sequencing centers, not only because of its speed, but also because of additional functionality, including coverage analysis and powerful filtering capability.
Availability and implementation: Sambamba is free and open source software, available under a GPLv2 license. Sambamba can be downloaded and installed from http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Sambamba.
Sambamba v0.5.0 was released with doi:10.5281/zenodo.13200.
Contact: [email protected]
Scholar articles
A Tarasov, AJ Vilella, E Cuppen, IJ Nijman, P Prins - Bioinformatics, 2015