Overview
genomics-bcftbx
provides a Python library and a set of utilities
used for NGS and genomics-related bioinformatics tasks.
The bcftbx
library provides submodules for various tasks,
including:
handling data from Illumina and SOLiD sequencing platforms;
working with various file formats including Fastq, Fasta, MS
Excel (
.xls
and.xlsx
), HTML and tab-delimited (.tsv
) files;running commands on local and cluster systems;
general filesystem operations, text manipulation and checksumming.
More details on the bcftbx
library can be found in bcftbx library reference.
The library supports a collection of utilities for tasks including:
handling Illumina and SOLiD sequencing data;
reporting outputs from bioinformatics software;
analysing and reporting microarray data;
performing basic manipulations on Fastq and Fasta files;
working with MD5 checksumming of files.
More details on the utilities can be found in usage.