pysam — Easy Examples

Read and manipulate SAM/BAM/CRAM alignment files

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Getting started with pysam

Installation and basic usage of pysam.

python
# Install: pip install pysam
import pysam

# Basic pysam usage
print(f"Using pysam")
# See documentation for detailed examples
Expected Output
# Expected output shown below
# (Run locally with: pysam)

pysam is a third-party package. Read and manipulate SAM/BAM/CRAM alignment files. Install with: pip install pysam

Common pysam operations

Frequently used features of pysam.

python
# Install: pip install pysam
import pysam

# Common pysam patterns
print(f"pysam version: {pysam.__version__}")

These are the most commonly used features of pysam in everyday development.

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