Binary Alignment Map

• Name: Binary Alignment Map
• Alternative Name: BAM
• Specification URI: http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf
• Maintainer: Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
• Disciplines: Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
• Description: The BAM Format is a binary format for storing comprehensive raw data of sequencing. It consists of the lossless, compressed binary representation of the Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) files.