Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) is a TAB-delimited text-based format originally for storing biological sequences aligned to a reference sequence developed by Heng Li and Bob Handsaker. It is widely used…
The BAM Format is a binary format for storing sequence data. A BAM file (*. bam) is the compressed binary version of a SAM file that is used to represent aligned…
The BED (Browser Extensible Data) format is a tab-delimited text file format used to store genomic regions as coordinates and related annotations and it defines a…
The GFF and GTF formats are used for annotating genomic intervals at high levels. In Bioinformatics, the general feature format (gene-finding format, generic feature…
GenBank format is a Flat File Format that stores sequence and its annotation together. The start of the annotation section is marked by…
In Bioinformatics and biochemistry, the FASTA format is a text based format for representing either nucleotide sequences or amino acid (protein) sequences, in which nucleotides or amino acids are represented using…