rustybam: a composable toolkit for alignment analysis and visualization with SafFire

2026 · doi:10.64898/2026.02.16.706142
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Summary We present rustybam , a Rust-based command-line toolkit for CIGAR-aware manipulation of PAF and BAM alignments, and SafFire , a browser-based tool for interactive genome comparison visualization with annotation overlays. rustybam’s composable subcommands provide overlap resolution, coordinate liftover, alignment splitting at structural variants, scaffolding, and identity statistics. Availability and implementation Both tools are open source under the MIT license. rustybam is available via Bioconda ( https://anaconda.org/bioconda/rustybam ), crates.io, and GitHub ( https://github.com/vollgerlab/rustybam ). SafFire is hosted at https://vollgerlab.com/SafFire/ with source code at https://github.com/vollgerlab/SafFire .
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Abstract Summary We present rustybam, a Rust-based command-line toolkit for CIGAR-aware manipulation of PAF and BAM alignments, and SafFire, a browser-based tool for interactive genome comparison visualization with annotation overlays. rustybam’s composable subcommands provide overlap resolution, coordinate liftover, alignment splitting at structural variants, scaffolding, and identity statistics. Availability and implementation Both tools are open source under the MIT license. rustybam is available via Bioconda (https://anaconda.org/bioconda/rustybam), crates.io, and GitHub (https://github.com/vollgerlab/rustybam). SafFire is hosted at https://vollgerlab.com/SafFire/ with source code at https://github.com/vollgerlab/SafFire. Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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