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README : BAMTOOLS

BamTools provides both a programmer's API and an end-user's toolkit for handling BAM files.

I. Learn More

II. License

III. Acknowledgements

IV. Contact

I. Learn More:

Installation steps, tutorial, API documentation, etc. are all now available through the BamTools project wiki:

https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki

Join the mailing list(s) to stay informed of updates or get involved with contributing:

https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki/Mailing-lists

II. License :

Both the BamTools API and toolkit are released under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Derek Barnett, Erik Garrison, Gabor Marth, Michael Stromberg

See included file LICENSE for details.

III. Acknowledgements :

• Aaron Quinlan for several key feature ideas and bug fix contributions
• Baptiste Lepilleur for the public-domain JSON parser (JsonCPP)
• Heng Li, author of SAMtools - the original C-language BAM API/toolkit.

IV. Contact :

Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc.

Derek Barnett Marth Lab Biology Dept., Boston College

Email: [email protected] Project Website: http://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools