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Bam files are binary alignment files, and are generated after raw reads in fastq format are aligned to a reference genome or other reference sequence. 4DN pipelines use bwa-mem to align and generate bams, while the ENCODE pipelines may use bowtie2. When bam files are indexed, there may also be a corresponding .bai file generated. Samtools can be used to convert between bam and the non-binary sam format.
September 18th, 2018 at 2:52am
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file_format
bam
assay_types
- Sequencing
extrafile_formats
file_content
alignments
standard_file_extension
bam
url
http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf
valid_item_types
- FileProcessed
- FileReference