htslib is an implementation of a unified C library for accessing common file formats, such as SAM, CRAM and VCF, used for high-throughput sequencing data, and is the core library used by samtools and bcftools

• Version: 1.2.1
• Added: March, 2015
• Link: https://github.com/samtools/htslib

$ module avail htslib

$ module load htslib 

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/samtools/htslib/archive/1.2.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf 1.2.1.tar.gz
cd htslib-1.2.1/
scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/htslib/1.2.1
sudo chown joguya:joguya /export/apps/htslib/1.2.1
autoreconf
./configure CC=clang --prefix=/export/apps/htslib/1.2.1
make
make install
sudo chown root:root /export/apps/htslib/1.2.1