Sequence Alignment/Map Format Specification
1 The SAM Format Specification
2 Recommended Practice for the SAM Format
3 Guide for Describing Assembly Sequences in SAM
- 3.1 Unpadded versus padded representation
- 3.2 Padded SAM
4 The BAM Format Specification
- 4.1 The BGZF compression format
  - 4.1.1 Random access
  - 4.1.2 End-of-file marker
- 4.2 The BAM format
  - 4.2.2 N CIGAR OP field
  - 4.2.3 SEQ and QUAL encoding
  - 4.2.4 Auxiliary data encoding
5 Indexing BAM
Appendix A Parsing region notation
- Appendix B SAM Version History
- 1.6: 28 November 2017 to current
- 1.4: 21 April 2011 to May 2013
- 1.3: July 2010 to April 2011
- 1.0: 2009 to July 2010