produces a histogram or table of coverage per chromosome
meta
Groovy Map containing sample information e.g. [ id:‘test’, single_end
input
BAM/CRAM/SAM file
*.{bam,cram,sam}
input_index
BAM/CRAM index file
*.{bai,crai}
meta2
Groovy Map containing reference information e.g. [ id:‘genome’ ]
fasta
Reference genome file
*.{fa,fasta}
fai
Reference genome index file
*.fai
versions
File containing software versions
versions.yml
coverage
Tabulated text containing the coverage at each position or region or an ASCII-art histogram (with —histogram).
*.txt
SAMtools is a set of utilities for interacting with and post-processing short DNA sequence read alignments in the SAM, BAM and CRAM formats, written by Heng Li. These files are generated as output by short read aligners like BWA.