libbam-dev | manipulates nucleotide sequence alignments in BAM or SAM format | Mehr ...
The BAM library provides I/O and various operations on manipulating nucleotide sequence alignments in the BAM (Binary Alignment/Mapping) or SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format. It now supports importing from or exporting to SAM, sorting, merging, generating pileup, and quickly retrieval of reads overlapped with a specified region.
samtools | processing sequence alignments in SAM and BAM formats | Mehr ...
Samtools is a set of utilities that manipulate nucleotide sequence alignments in the binary BAM format. It imports from and exports to the ascii SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows to retrieve reads in any regions swiftly. It is designed to work on a stream, and is able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP or HTTP server.
