[Samtools-help] Fast BAM image renderer

[Magnus M. <mm...@sa...>]

Hi all,

as part of LookSeq [1], I have written a BAM alignment image renderer in
C++. It can render coverage plots or paired alignments based on apparent
fragment size as PNG [2], and can be used as a stand-alone software.

Rendering speed is about 1 million read pairs/sec (using Sanger FTP as
data source), which is not far from the pure reading speed. Data
sources, display mode, and options are passed as command line parameters
(run without parameters to see help text).

Source is at [3]. Needs to be compiled against samtools and libpng.

Cheers,
Magnus


[1] http://lookseq.sf.net/
[2]
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Teams/Team112/lookseq/lookseq_cpp_renderer_examp
le.png
[3]
http://lookseq.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lookseq/bam_c/render_image.cpp
?view=log



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