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Standardizing Sources For Sequencing Data

ReadTools provides a consistent and highly tested set of tools for processing any kind of source of sequencing data, focusing in raw reads (although it also include tools for mapped reads).

Diverse formats were develop for store reads (see [Read sources]), but ReadTools opt for following the [SAM specs] to maintain a common data format to store both raw/mapped reads. Thus, ReadTools also helps to standardize different sources for sequencing data.

[SAM specs]: http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/ [Read sources]: https://github.com/magicDGS/ReadTools/wiki/Read-sources