1 HTSlib is an implementation of a unified C library for accessing common file
2 formats, such as [SAM, CRAM and VCF][1], used for high-throughput sequencing
3 data, and is the core library used by [samtools][2] and [bcftools][3].
4 HTSlib only depends on [zlib][4].
5 It is known to be compatible with gcc, g++ and clang.
7 HTSlib implements a generalized BAM index, with file extension `.csi`
8 (coordinate-sorted index). The HTSlib file reader first looks for the new index
9 and then for the old if the new index is absent.
11 This project also includes the popular tabix indexer, which indexes both `.tbi`
12 and `.csi` formats, and the bgzip compression utility.
14 [1]: http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/
15 [2]: http://github.com/samtools/samtools
16 [3]: http://samtools.github.io/bcftools/
21 See [INSTALL](INSTALL) for complete details.
22 [Release tarballs][download] contain generated files that have not been
23 committed to this repository, so building the code from a Git repository
27 autoheader # If using configure, generate the header template...
28 autoconf # ...and configure script (or use autoreconf to do both)
29 ./configure # Optional, needed for choosing optional functionality
34 [download]: http://www.htslib.org/download/