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Glossary

SAM

Sequence Alignment Map is a generic nucleotide alignment format that describes the alignment of query sequences or sequencing reads to a reference sequence or assembly

BAM

Binary version of the Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) format.

BAI

The index file for a file generated in the BAM format. (This is a non-standard file type.)

DSRC

A compression tool dedicated to FastQ files

FASTA

FASTA-formatted sequence files contains either nucleic acid sequence (such as DNA) or protein sequence information. FASTA files store multiple sequences in a single file.

GFF

General Feature Format, used for describing genes and other features associated with DNA, RNA and Protein sequences.

VCF

Variant Call Format, for use with the variant calling pipeline

BED

Format that defines the data lines displayed in an annotation track.

JSON

A human-readable data serialization language commonly used in configuration files. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON

YAML

A human-readable data serialization language commonly used in configuration files. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML