Bioinformatics 2 Abd 3
Bioinformatics 2 Abd 3
• SAM • CRAM:
• BAM o New format that is very similar to BAM.
o Same information as SAM and is Compressed.
• CRAM
o SAM – Sequence Alignment/ Map • BAM:
▪ A Header “optional, start o It has same information as
with @ SAM files.
▪ An alignment section o They are in binary file
• It is text file format. format.
• It contains the alignment o It is not readable by
information of various sequences human.
that are mapped against reference o It is smaller and more
sequence. efficient for software to
• It also contains unmated work, saving time and
sequence. reducing cost of
• It is readable by humans. computation and storage.
• The most widely used programs for global multiple sequence alignment are
from the CLUSTAL series of programs.