samtools convert sam to bam code example

Example 1: samtools convert bam to sam

# Basic syntax:
samtools view -S -b sample.sam > sample.bam
# Where
#	-S specifies that the input is a sam file
#	-b specified that the output should be written in bam format

Example 2: convert bam to sam samtools

samtools view -h -o yourDir/test.sam test.bam