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Introduction

Samtools hardly needs an introduction, it is one of the cornerstones of bioinformatics processing.

Primarily this is due to its providing various tools (available as subcommands) centred on a well defined sequence alignment format, sam, and its binary (and thefore compressed) equivalent, bam.