%0 Journal Article
%T Bio-samtools: Ruby bindings for SAMtools, a library for accessing BAM files containing high-throughput sequence alignments
%A Ricardo H Ramirez-Gonzalez
%A Raoul Bonnal
%A Mario Caccamo
%A Daniel MacLean
%J Source Code for Biology and Medicine
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1751-0473-7-6
%X The utility of SAMtools is encapsulated in 3 main classes, Bio::DB::Sam, representing the alignment files and providing access to the data in them, Bio::DB::Alignment, representing the individual read alignments inside the files and Bio::DB::Pileup, representing the summarised nucleotides of reads over a single point in the nucleotide sequence to which the reads are aligned.Bio-samtools is a flexible and easy to use interface that programmers of many levels of experience can use to access information in the popular and common SAM/BAM format.
%K Next-generation sequencing
%K DNA
%K High
%K Throughput
%K Ruby
%K Bio
%K SAM
%K BAM
%U http://www.scfbm.org/content/7/1/6/abstract