PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Arna Óskarsdóttir
AU  - Gísli Másson
AU  - Páll Melsted
TI  - BamHash: a checksum program for verifying the integrity of sequence data
AID  - 10.1101/015867
DP  - 2015 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 015867
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/03/015867.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/03/015867.full
AB  - Summary Large resequencing projects require a significant amount of storage for raw sequences, as well as alignment files. Since the raw sequences are redundant once the alignment has been generated, it is possible to keep only the alignment files. We present BamHash, a checksum based method to ensure that the read pairs in FASTQ files match exactly the read pairs stored in BAM files, regardless of the ordering of reads. BamHash can be used to verify the integrity of the files stored and discover any discrepancies. Thus, BamHash can be used to determine if it is safe to delete the FASTQ files storing raw sequencing reads after alignment, without the loss of data.Availability and Implementation The software is implemented in C++, GPL licensed and available at https://github.com/DecodeGenetics/BamHashContact pmelsted{at}hi.is