Converting SAM to BAM files

Question

[alphaflylizard]

What is a simple command that I can use to convert SAM to BAM files without losing any reads info?

Thank you!

[bk11]

Here are the additional utilities of samtools to invest your time.

https://davetang.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=SAMTools

[alphaflylizard]

Thank you! I have no bioinformatics background so this is very helpful!

Answer 1

[ATpoint]

samtools view -o out.bam in.sam

Please read the samtools manual for details on pretty much any sam/bam manipulation, it's the gold standard tool.