macOS
brew install bamtoolslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install bamtoolsMacPorts ports tree · devel/bamtools/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de bamtools pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
brew install bamtoolslocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install bamtoolsMacPorts ports tree · devel/bamtools/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
sudo apt install bamtoolsDebian stable package indexes · bamtools · Source: deb.debian.org
nix profile install nixpkgs#bamtoolsnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ba/bamtools/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
aperçu
C++ API and command-line toolkit for BAM data
historique
BamTools is a C++ API and command-line toolkit for working with BAM files, the binary alignment format used throughout high-throughput sequencing workflows. It is a packaging-significant bioinformatics utility because it provides both reusable libraries and small CLI tools for common BAM inspection and transformation jobs.
The official repository history begins in April 2009 with an initial import by the BamTools maintainers. The README identifies BamTools as both a programmer's API and an end-user toolkit for BAM files and credits Derek Barnett, Erik Garrison, Gabor Marth, and Michael Stromberg in the 2009-2010 copyright notice.
The README explicitly acknowledges Heng Li's SAMtools as the original C-language BAM API and toolkit, placing BamTools in the second wave of tooling around the SAM/BAM ecosystem: a C++ library and CLI layer for developers and pipeline authors who wanted BAM manipulation without binding directly to SAMtools internals.
BamTools reached the 2.x series by 2011 and has continued to receive maintenance releases, including the 2.5.x line used by modern package managers.
BamTools became a routine distribution package for bioinformatics environments: the supplied package facts list Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, MacPorts, and Nix packages. That adoption matters because genomics pipelines often rely on system packages for reproducible command-line utilities on shared clusters and CI images.
The source tree builds a bamtools toolkit binary with subcommands such as convert, count, coverage, filter, header, index, merge, random, resolve, revert, sort, split, and stats. The same repository also exposes a C++ API for applications that need to read or write BAM data programmatically.
Typical users are bioinformatics developers, sequencing pipeline maintainers, and researchers doing command-line BAM file processing outside larger workflow systems.
For package nerds, BamTools sits at the intersection of library packaging and scientific reproducibility. It is small enough to be a normal Unix package but domain-specific enough that ABI, zlib linkage, and command compatibility matter to downstream genomics stacks.
Its relationship to SAMtools makes it historically useful: SAMtools became the canonical C toolkit, while BamTools offered a C++-oriented alternative that distributions could ship for software expecting the BamTools API.
posture de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
bamtools | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
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https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools
métadonnées d'installation
| Clé du paquet | brew:bamtools |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.5.3 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bamtools |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki |
| Licence | MIT |
| Archive source | https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/archive/refs/tags/v2.5.3.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-05-03T16:10:34Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances | jsoncpp |
| Dépendances de compilation | cmake, pkgconf |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | bamtools |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 1 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
bamtools 2.5.2+dfsg-6+b1
toolkit for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install bamtoolslibbamtools-dev 2.5.2+dfsg-6+b1
C++ API for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools-devlibbamtools-doc 2.5.2+dfsg-6
docs for dynamic library for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools-doclibbamtools2.5.2 2.5.2+dfsg-6+b1
dynamic library for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools2.5.2bamtools
nix profile install nixpkgs#bamtoolsbamtools 2.5.2+dfsg-4
toolkit for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install bamtoolslibbamtools-dev 2.5.2+dfsg-4
C++ API for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools-devlibbamtools-doc 2.5.2+dfsg-4
docs for dynamic library for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools-doclibbamtools2.5.2 2.5.2+dfsg-4
dynamic library for manipulating BAM (genome alignment) files
https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki
sudo apt install libbamtools2.5.2bamtools
sudo port install bamtoolspiste source
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