BAM (file format)

BAM file format
Filename extension	.bam
Developed by	Heng Li; Bob Handsaker; Alec Wysoker; Tim Fennell; Jue Ruan; Nils Homer; Gabor Marth; Gonçalo Abecasis; Richard M. Durbin; 1000 Genomes Project;
Type of format	Bioinformatics
Extended from	Tab-separated values
Website	samtools.github.io/hts-specs/

The BAM file format (which stands for Binary Alignment Map) is the comprehensive raw data of genome sequencing. It consists of the lossless, compressed binary representation of a set of Sequence Alignment Map files.