Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools
Petr Danecek, James K. Bonfield, Jennifer Liddle, John Marshall, Valeriu Ohan, Martin O Pollard, Andrew Whitwham, Thomas Keane, Shane A. McCarthy, Robert M. Davies, Heng Li
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Abstract
Background SAMtools and BCFtools are widely used programs for processing and analysing high-throughput sequencing data. Findings The first version appeared online twelve years ago and has been maintained and further developed ever since, with many new features and improvements added over the years. The SAMtools and BCFtools packages represent a unique collection of tools that have been used in numerous other software projects and countless genomic pipelines. Conclusion Both SAMtools and BCFtools are freely available on GitHub under the permissive MIT licence, free for both non-commercial and commercial use. Both packages have been installed over a million times via Bioconda. The source code and documentation are available from http://www.htslib.org.