BamTools provides both a programmer's API and an end-user's toolkit for handling BAM files.
Documentation
BamTools home
BamTools wiki
Original journal article
Slurm script
#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name=BamTools #SBATCH --time=1:00:00 #SBATCH --partition=norm #SBATCH --ntasks=1 #SBATCH --mem=32GB module load bamtools bamtools convert -format fastq -in in.bam -out out.fastq
Build instructions for those who are curious
git clone https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools.git
mkdir -p bamtools/build; cd bamtools/build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mnt/nasapps/production/bamtools/2.5.2 ..
make && make install