CRAM

• Name: CRAM
• Alternative Name:
• Specification URI: http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/CRAMv3.pdf
• Maintainer: Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
• Disciplines: Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
• Description: CRAM is a compressed columnar file format for storing biological sequences aligned to a reference sequence. It was designed to be an efficient reference-based alternative to the Sequence Alignment Map (SAM) and Binary Alignment Map (BAM) file formats.