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diff --git a/biology/py-pysam/pkg-descr b/biology/py-pysam/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3278584b89c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/biology/py-pysam/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +pysam is a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API and provides facilities to +read and write SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF/BED/GFF/GTF/FASTA/FASTQ files as well as access +to the command line functionality of the samtools and bcftools packages. The +module supports compression and random access through indexing. + +This module provides a low-level wrapper around the htslib C-API as using +cython and a high-level API for convenient access to the data within standard +genomic file formats. + +WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysam |