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+# Miscellaneous things to process high throughput sequencing data.
+
+This Python package also installs a shell script depending on samtools:
+`sam2indexedbam.sh`
+
+## Installing
+
+Get the source using `git clone git@gitlab.pasteur.fr:bli/libhts.git`, `cd` into it and run `python3 -m pip install .`
+
+It might also work directly:
+
+    python3 -m pip install git+ssh://git@gitlab.pasteur.fr/bli/libhts.git
+