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SAMtools vs sambamba: Which Tool Sorts BAM Files Faster?

by Stuart Davis | Aug 27, 2018 | Bioinformatics

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...

SAMtools vs sambamba: Which Tool Sorts BAM Files Faster?

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