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

• Version: 1.2
• Added: February, 2015
• Link: http://www.htslib.org/

Show all available versions of samtools:

$ module avail samtools

Load a particular version of samtools:

$ module load samtools/1.2

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ git clone git@github.com:samtools/htslib.git
$ git clone git@github.com:samtools/samtools.git
$ cd samtools
$ git checkout 1.2
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/samtools/1.2/
$ sudo chown joguya:joguya /export/apps/samtools/1.2/
$ make
$ make prefix=/export/apps/samtools/1.2/ install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/samtools/1.2/