A short script to create an integrity hash for a full sequence genome file, tested on BAM. Currently, we use the MD5 hash algorithm.
Navigate to the directory that has the BAM file. Enter in the command with the filename to show your MD5 hash.
python bam-hash.py filename.bamIf you did not specify one on the command line, you can enter it then. It will print out the hash.
An example of a produced hash is da4ab4dfc16ac510e84fb466cc659441
In order to check the validity of this method, both Python in Linux and Powershell in Windows were utilized and returned the same result. The corresponding command in Powershell,
(Get-FileHash -Path $filename -Algorithm MD5).Hash.ToLower()