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PacBio bioinformatics file formats

As of the 3.0 release of SMRTanalysis, PacBio is embracing the industry standard BAM format for (both aligned and unaligned) basecall data files. We have also formulated a BAM companion file format (bam.pbi) enabling fast access to a richer set of per-read information as well as compatibility for software built around the legacy cmp.h5 format.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   BAM
   PacBioBamIndex
   FASTA
   DataSet

Legacy formats

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   BasH5Spec
   CmpH5Spec

APIs available

We occasionally make changes to these file format specifications so we recommend using PacBio-authored APIs to access these file types.