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Introduction

Pysam is a Python module used to read and operate files in SAM, BAM, VCF, and BCF formats. It is a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API and provides support for SAMtools, BCFtools, and tabix.

For more information, visit the official Pysam website.

Programming language: Python/Cython

Open source license: MIT License

Brief description: A Python module used to read and operate SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF files.

Recommended Software Version

Pysam v0.15.4