IonCRAM: a reference-based compression tool for ion torrent sequence files

Abstract Background Ion Torrent is one of the major next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and it is frequently used in medical research and diagnosis. The built-in software for the Ion Torrent sequencing machines delivers the sequencing results in the BAM format. In addition to the usual SAM...

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Main Authors: Moustafa Shokrof, Mohamed Abouelhoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03726-9