Improve SAM tag handling

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Read the linked discussion on pull request 3256 first, since no source files or tests are identified in the issue. Clarify the SAM tag representation and affected entry points there; done means storing vectors of tags rather than the raw string, with relevant behavior covered by tests.

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Description

feature/proposal

https://github.com/seqan/seqan3/pull/3256#discussion_r1632766925

We should store vectors of tags instead of the raw string.

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