5 open source projects by samtools

A Java API for high-throughput sequencing data (HTS) formats.

Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data

C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats

Specifications of SAM/BAM and related high-throughput sequencing file formats

This is the official development repository for BCFtools. See installation instructions and other documentation here http://samtools.github.io/bcftools/howtos/install.html