====== samtools ======
samtools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.

  * Latest Version: 1.17
  * Added: February, 2015
  * Updated: March, 2025
  * Link: http://www.htslib.org

===== Usage =====

Show all available versions:
<code>$ module avail samtools</code>

Load one version into your environment and run it:
<code>$ module load samtools/1.17
$ samtools</code>

===== Installation =====
Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

<code>$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.17/samtools-1.17.tar.bz2
$ tar xf samtools-1.17.tar.bz2
$ cd samtools-1.17
$ ./configure --enable-plugins --enable-libcurl --prefix=/export/apps/samtools/1.17 --with-htslib=/export/apps/htslib/1.17
$ make
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/samtools/1.17
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/samtools/1.17
$ make install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/samtools/1.17</code>

Note: this links against htslib/1.17, which is installed as a module. As of 1.17 this was compiled on CentOS 8 Stream.