Template:OutBAMOutputFile
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output File (--out)
Use --out followed by your file name to specify the SAM/BAM output file.
The file extension is used to determine whether to write SAM/BAM/uncompressed BAM. A - is used to indicate stdout and the extension for file type (no extension is SAM).
| SAM to file | --out yourFileName.sam
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| BAM to file | --out yourFileName.bam
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| Uncompressed BAM to file | --out yourFileName.ubam
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| SAM to stdout | --out -
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| BAM to stdout | --out -.bam
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| Uncompressed BAM to stdout | --out -.ubam
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Note: Uncompressed BAM is compressed using compression level-0 (so it is not an entirely uncompressed file). This matches the samtools implementation so pipes between our tools and samtools are supported.
