Bamtools provides C++ API & command-line toolkit for working with BAM data.

• Version: 2.5.1
• Added: February, 2016
• Updated: December, 2017
• Link: https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools

See which versions of bamtools are available:

$ module avail bamtools

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load bamtools/2.5.1
$ bamtools

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/archive/v2.5.1.zip
$ unzip v2.5.1.zip
$ cd bamtools-2.5.1
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ sudo yum install cmake3
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/bamtools/2.5.1
$ sudo chown aorth /export/apps/bamtools/2.5.1
$ cmake3 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/export/apps/bamtools/2.5.1 ..
$ make install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/bamtools/2.5.1