NAME
sam - Sequence Alignment/Map file format
DESCRIPTION
Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is TAB-delimited. Apart from the header lines, which are started with the ’@’ symbol, each alignment line consists of:
Each bit in the FLAG field is defined as:
where the second column gives the string representation of the FLAG field.
SEE ALSO
https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs
The full SAM/BAM file format specification