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the difference between pysam and pybam

hi everyone ! I am a beginner in bioinformatics, iwonder what the difference between pysam and bybam and what they do as role.

they are coded by python 2 ?

thank you in advanced

sequencing alignment

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Quoting the Pysam Github repo description:

Pysam is a Python module for reading and manipulating SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.

I do not know which pybam you are referring to, you'd need to provide a link. It is probably any other project aiming to write software for NGS data manipulation in python.

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