Installation

The genomics-bcftbx package is available from its GitHub respository at

Specific versions can be obtained as tar.gz archives from:

The software is written in Python (see Supported Python versions for a list of supported versions).

It is recommended to install the package into a Python virtualenv, for example:

virtualenv venv.bcftbx
. venv.bcftbx/bin/activate

To install a specific version, first download and unpack the source code, e.g.:

wget https://github.com/fls-bioinformatics-core/genomics/archive/2.0.0.tar.gz
tar zxf 2.0.0.tar.gz

Then install the package using:

pip install ./genomics-2.0.0

See the requirements documentation for details of other 3rd party software that is needed for specific utilities.