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Read File Format .Bam

My research is related to the manufacture of snp database. constraints that occurs is how to read the file. bam. in this case, I want to take the data from the file. bam whose content is an alignment. whether the file. bam it compressed? if I open it using notepad++, the data unreadable.

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It's bgzf compressed : http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/SAMv1.pdf

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