Output Formats

Lambda supports five output formats, specified by their file extensions:

• .m0, .m8, .m9 (see BLAST Output Formats)
• .sam, .bam (see SAMTOOLS Output Formats)

There is also support for on-the-fly compression of of all formats (other than BAM which already is compressed). Just add .gz or .bz2 to the end of the output filename, e.g. output.m9.gz or output.sam.bz2. Depending on processor speed in relation to disk-speed it might even be faster to add .gz than to not using compression.