SAM-Profiler: A Graphical Tool for Qualitative Profiling of Next Generation Sequencing Alignment Data

SAM/BAM alignment file formats are extensively used in virtually all the laboratories devoted to high-throughput sequencing. However, limited effort has been yet dedicated to the development of SAM/BAM quality reporting tools. To overcome this problem, we developed SAM-Profiler, a multiplatform tool dedicated to the advanced quality reporting of SAM/BAM files. SAM-Profiler performs qualitative analysis of SAM/BAM alignment data in the context of next-generation sequencing. It is implemented in C# and can be run under Windows, Linux and MacOS operative systems. Two versions are available: fully graphical, event-driven software and a command-line tool.