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Authors and Citation

Authors

  • Sounkou Mahamane Toure. Author, maintainer.

  • Genome Research Ltd.. Copyright holder.
    Copyright holder of the included HTSlib, BCFtools, and Samtools source

  • Zhonghai Zhang. Author.
    Author of the included FastDup source

  • Yewen Li. Author.
    Author of the included FastDup source

  • Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science. Copyright holder.
    Copyright holder of the included FastDup source

  • Zilong Li. Copyright holder.
    Author of the vcfpp library from whom makefiles and configure strategy is borrowed

  • Duckdb C API and extension and API authors. Copyright holder.
    Authors of the duckdb extension and API used for parquet export

  • Giulio Genovese. Copyright holder.
    Author of BCFTools munge plugin

Citation

Source: DESCRIPTION

Toure S, Zhang Z, Li Y (2026). RBCFTools: Bundled 'FastDup', 'Samtools', 'BCFtools', and 'HTSlib' Utilities. R package version 1.24-1.1.1.9000, https://github.com/RGenomicsETL/RBCFTools. 

@Manual{,
  title = {RBCFTools: Bundled 'FastDup', 'Samtools', 'BCFtools', and 'HTSlib' Utilities},
  author = {Sounkou Mahamane Toure and Zhonghai Zhang and Yewen Li},
  year = {2026},
  note = {R package version 1.24-1.1.1.9000},
  url = {https://github.com/RGenomicsETL/RBCFTools},
}

Additional details

Sounkou Mahamane Toure <sounkoutoure@gmail.com> (aut, cre)

Vendored components / Copyright holders

- bcftools/htslib Authors

see src/bcftools-1.24/AUTHORS

- Samtools Authors and Genome Research Ltd. (2008-2026)

see src/samtools-1.24/AUTHORS and src/samtools-1.24/LICENSE

- FastDup Authors Zhonghai Zhang and Yewen Li
  Copyright (c) 2025 Institute of Computing Technology,
  Chinese Academy of Science
  MIT License

see src/fastdup-1.0.0/LICENSE and src/fastdup-1.0.0/README.md

- BCFToolsScore plugin Author Giulio Genovese
  MIT Licence

- duckdb C API and C Extension API headers Authors
   MIT Licence