Bug? Do we need a header for a SAM?

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Bug? Do we need a header for a SAM?

04-08-2015, 03:25 AM

I'm using the htslib C library for parsing my SAM files (also used by the samtools project). The library fails if there is no header in a SAM file. However, header is optional as specified in the official documentation.

Is this a bug or is this an expected behaviour? If this is a bug, I'll push an update to the project.
Tags: htslib, samtools

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