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Lesson 8.6 — SAM/BAM Alignment Format: Reading via Samtools
🧬 Biological Scenario: SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) is a text format describing how sequencing reads align to a reference genome; BAM is its compressed binary equivalent. Unlike the formats above, BAM's binary…
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