Description
Replace the header in the bam file with the header generated by the command. This command is much faster than replacing the header with a BAM→SAM→BAM conversion.
Tools
samtools Documentation
SAMtools is a set of utilities for interacting with and post-processing short DNA sequence read alignments in the SAM, BAM and CRAM formats, written by Heng Li. These files are generated as output by short read aligners like BWA.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352License: MIT