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README : BAMTOOLS
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BamTools provides both a programmer's API and an end-user's toolkit for handling
BAM files.

I.   Learn More

II.  License

III. Acknowledgements

IV.  Contact

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I. Learn More:
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Installation steps, tutorial, API documentation, etc. are all now available 
through the BamTools project wiki:

https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki

Join the mailing list(s) to stay informed of updates or get involved with 
contributing:

https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki/Mailing-lists

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II. License :
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Both the BamTools API and toolkit are released under the MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Derek Barnett, Erik Garrison, Gabor Marth,
    Michael Stromberg

See included file LICENSE for details.

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III. Acknowledgements :
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 * Aaron Quinlan for several key feature ideas and bug fix contributions
 * Baptiste Lepilleur for the public-domain JSON parser (JsonCPP)
 * Heng Li, author of SAMtools - the original C-language BAM API/toolkit.

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IV. Contact :
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Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports,
    etc.

Derek Barnett
Marth Lab
Biology Dept., Boston College

Email: derekwbarnett@gmail.com
Project Website: http://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools
