Samtools Has a GLFv3 Viewer
I was asked to generate a ASCII version of a samtools generated GLFv3 file yesterday. We were thinking about using a set of programs named glfProgs, which is available on Maq’s sourceforge page, but had no luck: gzread complains cannot open file. After read a few lines of the source code of samtools I found that samtools (v0.17) has a glf viewer itself but is not written in the manual.
glfview print GLFv3 file
Neat. If you run samtools without any arguments it will also tell you this, but we barely do it these days.
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