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by bede 271 days ago
BAM format is widely used but assemblies still tend to be generated and exchanged in FASTA text. BAM is quite a big spec and I think it's fair to say that none of the simpler binary equivalents to FASTA and FASTQ have caught on yet (XKCD competing standards etc.)

e.g. https://github.com/ArcInstitute/binseq