+ /*!
+ @abstract Check whether a BAM record is plausibly valid
+ @param header associated header structure, or NULL if unavailable
+ @param b alignment to validate
+ @return 0 if the alignment is invalid; non-zero otherwise
+
+ @discussion Simple consistency check of some of the fields of the
+ alignment record. If the header is provided, several additional checks
+ are made. Not all fields are checked, so a non-zero result is not a
+ guarantee that the record is valid. However it is usually good enough
+ to detect when bam_seek() has been called with a virtual file offset
+ that is not the offset of an alignment record.
+ */
+ int bam_validate1(const bam_header_t *header, const bam1_t *b);
+