Please note that development on biobambam has stopped on this repository. Please see biobambam2 at https://github.com/gt1/biobambam2 for recent developments.

This package contains some tools for processing BAM files including

• bamcollate2: reads BAM and writes BAM reordered such that alignment or collated by query name
• bammarkduplicates: reads BAM and writes BAM with duplicate alignments marked using the BAM flags field
• bammaskflags: reads BAM and writes BAM while masking (removing) bits from the flags column
• bamrecompress: reads BAM and writes BAM with a defined compression setting. This tool is capable of multi-threading.
• bamsort: reads BAM and writes BAM resorted by coordinates or query name
• bamtofastq: reads BAM and writes FastQ; output can be collated or uncollated by query name

A short list of options is available for each program by calling it with the -h parameter, e.g.

bamsort -h

The biobambam source code is hosted on github:

git@github.com:gt1/biobambam.git

biobambam needs libmaus [https://github.com/gt1/libmaus] . When libmaus is installed in ${LIBMAUSPREFIX} then biobambam can be compiled and installed in ${HOME}/biobambam using

- autoreconf -i -f
- ./configure --with-libmaus=${LIBMAUSPREFIX} \
	--prefix=${HOME}/biobambam
- make install