How to check what software has been used to generate bam file? I have several bam files from unknown origin. I'd like to know what software was used to obtain those bam files, e.g. bwa-mem. Is it possible to somehow check it?
If you're lucky the information is stored in the BAM header in the lines starting with @PG which stores the command lines run on the BAM, use samtools view -H your.bam to display the header.