- in the BAM format. It imports from and exports to the SAM (Sequence
- Alignment/Map) format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows to
- retrieve reads in any regions swiftly. It is designed to work on a stream, and
- is able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP server.
+ in the binary BAM format. It imports from and exports to the ascii SAM
+ (Sequence Alignment/Map) format, does sorting, merging and indexing, and allows
+ to retrieve reads in any regions swiftly. It is designed to work on a stream,
+ and is able to open a BAM (not SAM) file on a remote FTP or HTTP server.