title: Sambamba: fast processing of NGS alignment formats.
abstract: Sambamba is a high-performance robust tool and library for working with SAM, BAM and CRAM sequence alignment files; the most common file formats for aligned next generation sequencing data. Sambamba is a faster alternative to samtools that exploits multi-core processing and dramatically reduces processing time. Sambamba is being adopted at sequencing centers, not only because of its speed, but also because of additional functionality, including coverage analysis and powerful filtering capability.
  
  
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  Sambamba is free and open source software, available under a GPLv2 license. Sambamba can be downloaded and installed from http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Sambamba.Sambamba v0.5.0 was released with doi:10.5281/zenodo.13200.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Artem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tarasov
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Albert J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Vilella
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Edwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cuppen
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Isaac J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Nijman
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Department of Statistical Simulation, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Illumina Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Department of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Pjotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Prins
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D023281:Genomics; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software