Authors and Citation • RBCFTools

Authors

Sounkou Mahamane Toure. Author, maintainer.
Bonfield, James K and Marshall, John and Danecek, Petr and Li, Heng and Ohan, Valeriu and Whitwham, Andrew and Keane, Thomas Davies, Robert M, Pierre Lindenbaum. Copyright holder.
Authors of included htslib library and bcftools command line tools
Genome Research Ltd.. Copyright holder.
Copyright holder of the included Samtools source
Zhonghai Zhang. Author.
Author of the included FastDup source
ICT. Copyright holder.
Copyright notice in 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 (2026). RBCFTools: Bundled 'FastDup', 'Samtools', 'BCFtools', and 'HTSlib' Utilities. R package version 1.24-1.0.0.9000, https://github.com/RGenomicsETL/RBCFTools.

@Manual{,
  title = {RBCFTools: Bundled 'FastDup', 'Samtools', 'BCFtools', and 'HTSlib' Utilities},
  author = {Sounkou Mahamane Toure and Zhonghai Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  note = {R package version 1.24-1.0.0.9000},
  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