Main tool:
Additional tools:
- perl 5.30.0
# determine file formats for various BAM and SAM files
$ htsfile tests/SARS-CoV-2/SRR13957123.primertrim.sorted.bam
tests/SARS-CoV-2/SRR13957123.primertrim.sorted.bam: BAM version 1 compressed sequence data
$ htsfile ce_tag_padded.sam
ce_tag_padded.sam: SAM version 1.4 sequence text
# compresses sample.fastq to sample.fastq.gz in BGZF format (blocked GNU Zip Format)
$ bgzip sample.fastq
Better documentation can be found at https://www.htslib.org/doc/samtools.html