Tools & APIs

Conversion Tools

The SMRT® Pipe software includes several tools for file conversion and access. They generate some of the outputs from the analysis pipeline.

  • HDF5 to FASTA A python script to convert PacBio HDF5 files into FASTA format
  • HDF5 to SAM/BAM A python script to convert PacBio HDF5 files into SAM/BAM format
  • GFF to BED A python script to convert variants GFF files into BED format.
  • GFF to VCF A python script to convert variants GFF files into VCF format.

Web Service APIs

To integrate with the PacBio instrument and secondary analysis software, take a look at the web service API docs.

File APIs

To access PacBio data files, our software engineers and bioinformaticians wrote these APIs. They are available as separate (and small!) downloads like any other community-contributed code. We encourage you to share conversion tools or APIs that you have developed and think may be useful to others.