- First stable release
- ABRIDGE offers the following functionalities
- Compression in multiple modes like retaining all quality scores, removing unmapped reads etc. For more information, please see
- Can work both with SAM and BAN format. No need to convert from BAM to SAM. CRAM format is not supported
- Can handle both types of CIGAR strings, one where M represents matches and the other where = represents matches
- Single program to compress both single ended and paired ended data - easier to maintain and ensures better code reuse