A standardized platform-agnostic and future-proof format
The Standard (LASTQ) format guarantees BX:Z and VX:i SAM tags that encode the barcode and it’s
validity. This format is universal and agnostic to all existing linked-read varieties and their particulars (including ours!).
It is 100% compliant with comment transfer during alignment and trivial to parse once in SAM format. We
created an entire website to promote this format across all linked-read technologies and build a unified
ecosystem for linked-read data.
