SAM file format is a text data format created in 2009.

Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) is a text-based format for storing biological sequences aligned to a reference sequence developed by Heng Li and Bob Handsaker et al. It is widely used for storing data, such as nucleotide sequences, generated by next generation sequencing technologies. The format supports short and long reads (up to 128Mbp) produced by different sequencing platforms and is used to hold mapped data within the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) and across the Broad Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and throughout the 1000 Genomes Project. Read more on Wikipedia...

• SAM file format Wikipedia page
• SAM file format first developed in Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and University of California Los Angeles and Boston College and University of Michigan and Chinese Academy of Science
• See also: (3 related languages)TSV, Binary Alignment Map, FASTQ
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