jpayne@69: Many people have contributed to pysam. The list of GitHub contributors
jpayne@69: is the best place to get a full list of authors and their contributions.
jpayne@69: The list and summary below is a out-of-date and represents the earlier
jpayne@69: stages of the project.
jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: List of contributors:
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jpayne@69: Andreas Heger, Tildon Grant Belgard, Florian Finkernagel,
jpayne@69: Leo Goodstadt, Martin Goodson all contributed code to pysam.
jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: John Marshall has been looking after pysam and its community for
jpayne@69: several years, as well as making many code contributions and improving
jpayne@69: the engineering of pysam.
jpayne@69: 
jpayne@69: Kevin B. Jacobs implemented a Cython wrapper for the VCF/BCF
jpayne@69: reader/writer in htslib.
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jpayne@69: Gerton Lunter provided a validating VCF parser.
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jpayne@69: Marcel Martin implemented Python 3 compatibility and added type hints.
jpayne@69: Ben Schiller contributed a Windows compatible clone.
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jpayne@69: The sources in the directory samtools are from the samtools project:
jpayne@69: http://samtools.sourceforge.net/. All of these are available under the
jpayne@69: MIT licence. The attributions for this code are as follows:
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jpayne@69: Heng Li from the Sanger Institute wrote most of the initial source code
jpayne@69: of SAMtools and various converters.
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jpayne@69: Bob Handsaker from the Broad Institute is a major contributor to the
jpayne@69: SAM/BAM specification. He designed and implemented the BGZF format, the
jpayne@69: underlying indexable compression format for the BAM format. BGZF does
jpayne@69: not support arithmetic between file offsets.