Le Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > [Charles, please make sure you read the end of this mail about samtools!] > > Attention to Charles: I just realised that *sam*tools creates a package > lib*bam*-dev containing /usr/lib/lib*bam*.a - somehow this sounds wrong > to me - please verify whether this is OK.
Hi Andreas, SAM and BAM are two facets of the same format: SAM is tab-delimited text fields, and BAM is indexed binary fields, but the fields are the same, as described in the SAM format specification. http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf http://samtools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/samtools/trunk/sam-spec/ (By the way, given that the source is available, I was sometimes tempted to package it, but given my current backlog it would be pure procrastination). So it is totally consistent that samtools, which reads and writes SAM and BAM provides a bam library. BamTools is the C++ equivalent of samtools, like Picard is the Java equivalent... The whole naming scheme is not particularly optimal... Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121108093600.ga3...@falafel.plessy.net
