posted on 2012-07-16, 15:43authored byGustavo Glusman, Mike Cariaso, Rafael Jimenez, Daniel Swan, Bastian Greshake, Jong Bhak, Darren W Logan, Manuel CorpasManuel Corpas
The Fastq files represent the raw exome data for the son. The BAM files are derived from the fastq files by aligning the reads using a Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA). The BAM file (.bam) is the binary version of a tab-delimited text file that contains sequence alignment data. The BAM file index (.bai) provides fast random access to the BAM file. The compressed VCF file (.vcf.gz) describes variant calls of the data in text format.