Pysam

Pysam is a python module for reading and manipulating Samfiles. It's a lightweight wrapper of the samtools C-API. Pysam also includes an interface for tabix.

The latest version is available on the 'Downloads' page. See the 'INSTALL' file for instructions.

The quick start guide is here. More detailed documentation is available here.

Questions and comments are very welcome and should be send to the the pysam user group at http://groups.google.com/group/pysam-user-group