Release 1.9 of Samtools, BCFtools and HTSlib is now available from the usual outlets (SourceForge and GitHub). Get it while it's hot! htslib.org/download/

mpeg-g has been challenged to substantiate claims about their fantastic results datageekdom.blogspot.com/2018/10/mpeg-g… biorxiv.org/content/early/…

The long awaited release of 1.10 of Samtools, BCFtools and HTSlib is now available from the GitHub. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes.

The preprint for our HTSlib paper is now available on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Thank you to all our users and those who have offered suggestions and filed issues to improve the software.

The preprint for our new samtools / bcftools paper is now out on arXiv.org. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed. arxiv.org/abs/2012.10295

Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…

HTSlib paper academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…

Play it again, SAM(tools)? gigasciencejournal.com/blog/play-it-a…

Release 1.12 of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools is now available from GitHub. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes.

Release 1.14 of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools is now available from GitHub. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes.

Release 1.17 of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools is now available from GitHub. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes.

Congratulations, Richard Durbin! sanger.ac.uk/news/view/rich…

Haplotype-aware consequence calling biorxiv.org/content/early/…

New from our group: stimulation qtls using hipsci cell lines x.com/kauralasoo/sta…

Release 1.4 of HTSlib, Samtools, and BCFtools are now available on github and sourceforge. Share and Enjoy The Samtools Team

Old 2015 story, but not outdated. Beautiful. io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-milli…

One of the longest threads on BAM format. If you maintain a BAM library, please comment on how to handle long reads github.com/samtools/hts-s…

Explained Visually setosa.io/ev/ - nice visualizations

Big news is coming pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980…, theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/int…