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Binary Alignment Map (BAM) is the comprehensive raw data of genome sequencing;[1] it consists of the lossless, compressed binary representation of the Sequence Alignment Map-files.[2][3]

BAM is the compressed binary representation of SAM (Sequence Alignment Map). BAM is in compressed BGZF format.

See also

Compression

BAM, SAM and CRAM files may be further compressed using Genozip[4]

References

  1. ^ "Carl Zimmer's Game of Genomes, Season 1: Episode 3, BAM Reveals All". STAT. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  2. ^ Li, Heng (2009-06-08). "The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools" (PDF). Bioinformatics. 25: 2078–9. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352. PMC 2723002. PMID 19505943.
  3. ^ "Binary Alignment Map". National Cancer Institute Wiki. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
  4. ^ Lan, D., et al. 2021, Genozip: a universal extensible genomic data compressor, Bioinformatics