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Sequence Alignment Map

Abbreviation: SAM

General Information

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

Countries that developed this resource 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: Jan. 8, 2019, 1:28 p.m.; Last accessed: Jul 27 2021 1:24 p.m.

Record updated: Nov. 28, 2016, 3:55 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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		After: Sequence Alignment Map Organisations have changed:  Previous values: National Institute of Health (NIH)|USA National Institute of Health (NIH)|USA The 1000 Genome Project The Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute US National Institutes of Health (NIH) US National Institutes of Health (NIH) New values:  National Institute of Health (NIH)|USA National Institute of Health (NIH)|USA The 1000 Genome Project The Wellcome Trust|UK The Wellcome Trust|UK The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute|The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus|Hinxton|Cambridge CB10 1SA|UK. US National Institutes of Health (NIH) US National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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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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ISO/CD 20691 Collection - DRAFT

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Richard Durbin ORCID

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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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The Wellcome Trust, UK (Charitable foundation)
U.S. National Library of Medicine (Government body)
The Wellcome Trust, UK (Charitable foundation)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

Maintains

The 1000 Genome Project
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK (Research institute)

Grant Number(s)

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

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