Sequence Alignment Map

Abbreviation: SAM

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The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is a TAB-delimited text format consisting of a header section, which is optional, and an alignment section.

Homepage https://github.com/samtools/samtools

Developed in China , United Kingdom , United States

Created in 2008

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: SAM; Sequence Alignment Map; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.k97xzh; Last edited: Nov. 23, 2018, 11:27 a.m.; Last accessed: Dec 19 2018 4:07 p.m.

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		After: rd@sanger.ac.uk Domain list has changed:  Previous values: Nucleic acid sequence|material|http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33696 Sequence Alignment|process|http://bioontology.org/ontologies/BiomedicalResourceOntology.owl#Sequence_Alignment Sequence data|property|http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000973 New values:  Nucleic acid sequence|material|http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33696 Sequence Alignment|process|http://bioontology.org/ontologies/BiomedicalResourceOntology.owl#Sequence_Alignment Sequence data|property|http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000973 Life Science|domain| Organisations have changed:  Previous values: New values:  The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Grants have changed:  Previous values: New values:  U54HG002750 077192/Z/05/Z

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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools.

Li H, Handsaker B, Wysoker A, Fennell T, Ruan J, Homer N, Marth G, Abecasis G, Durbin R; 1000 Genome Project Data Processing Subgroup
Bioinformatics 2009

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modMine
modMine is an integrated web resource of data and tools to browse and search modENCODE data and experimental details, download results and access the GBrowse genome browser.

RhesusBase
A comprehensive online knowledgebase for the monkey research community.

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National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

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077192/Z/05/Z (The Wellcome Trust, UK)
U54HG002750 (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

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