Introduction
SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map) format is a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments. SAM is described in the SAMtools project page.
Picard comprises Java-based command-line utilities that manipulate SAM files, and a Java API (SAM-JDK) for creating new programs that read and write SAM files. Both SAM text format and SAM binary (BAM) format are supported.
A set of tools (in Java) for working with next generation sequencing data in the BAM (http://samtools.sourceforge.net) format.
Source: http://picard.sourceforge.net/index.shtml http://sourceforge.net/projects/picard/
Modulefile Usage
module load bioinformatics/picard/1.68
module display bioinformatics/picard/1.68 ------------------------------------------------------------------- /sw/com/modulefiles/bioinformatics/picard/1.68: module-whatis adds picard directories to PATH etc. prepend-path CLASSPATH /sw/bioinformatics/picard-tools/1.68/jar -------------------------------------------------------------------
Installation
mkdir /sw/bioinformatics/picard-tools/1.68/src unzip picard-tools-1.68.zip