= Pileup format
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The Pileup format is a file format used primarily in bioinformatics to represent aligned sequence data from high-throughput sequencing technologies. It is commonly utilized in the context of variant calling and visualization of genomic data. Pileup files condense information from several aligned reads at specific positions across one or more reference sequences (like a genome), allowing for a compact representation of sequence coverage and variation.
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