Software Development

AlterLab Pysam

Read and write genomic alignment and variant files in Python with pysam (htslib bindings) — SAM/BAM/CRAM alignments, VCF/BCF variants, and FASTA/FASTQ sequences, plus region extraction and per-base coverage/pileup. Use when scripting NGS data-processing pipelines that parse, filter, index, or compute coverage over BAM/CRAM/VCF files. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

Publisher / source

AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (found on the CSV list)

Upstream record

AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Version

Version 2

Published

2026-11-03

Publication review

Approved for publication

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