BenLangmead / qtip

Qtip: a tandem simulation approach for accurately predicting read alignment mapping qualities
MIT License
25 stars 7 forks source link

Store all alignments as BAM instead of SAM #4

Open johanneskoester opened 6 years ago

johanneskoester commented 6 years ago

I noticed that qtip stores any alignments as SAM. This can be huge and therefore very problematic with real data. Could you please consider storing BAM instead? The overhead of compression and decompression on the fly should be negligible. Moreover, it will be even faster to read and write a BAM on most systems, because much less has to be written to disk.