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Faster sorting of BAM files: SAMtools vs sambamba
The performance of NGS alignment tools has continuously improved, but sorting the aligned data now takes more time than alignment. A big leap in sorting was recently initiated with SAMtools version 1.x, with support for parallel processing for sorting. We compared the...
read moreBasepair turns 2.0
Basepair was founded in direct response to the challenges I was personally facing with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis while working at Harvard Medical School and other research institutions. NGS has witnessed a data deluge three times larger than Moore's...
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