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bíogo

Installation

    $ go get github.com/biogo/biogo/...

Overview

bíogo is a bioinformatics library for the Go language.

Getting help

Help or similar requests are preferred on the biogo-user Google Group.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/biogo-user

Contributing

If you find any bugs, feel free to file an issue on the github issue tracker. Pull requests are welcome, though if they involve changes to API or addition of features, please first open a discussion at the biogo-dev Google Group.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/biogo-dev

Citing

If you use bíogo, please cite Kortschak, Snyder, Maragkakis and Adelson "bíogo: a simple high-performance bioinformatics toolkit for the Go language", doi:10.21105/joss.00167, and Kortschak and Adelson "bíogo: a simple high-performance bioinformatics toolkit for the Go language", doi:10.1101/005033.

The Purpose of bíogo

bíogo stems from the need to address the size and structure of modern genomic and metagenomic data sets. These properties enforce requirements on the libraries and languages used for analysis:

speed - size of data sets
concurrency - problems often embarrassingly parallelisable

In addition to the computational burden of massive data set sizes in modern genomics there is an increasing need for complex pipelines to resolve questions in tightening problem space and also a developing need to be able to develop new algorithms to allow novel approaches to interesting questions. These issues suggest the need for a simplicity in syntax to facilitate:

ease of coding
checking for correctness in development and particularly in peer review

Related to the second issue is the reluctance of some researchers to release code because of quality concerns.

The issue of code release is the first of the principles formalised in the Science Code Manifesto.

Code  All source code written specifically to process data for a published
      paper must be available to the reviewers and readers of the paper.

A language with a simple, yet expressive, syntax should facilitate development of higher quality code and thus help reduce this barrier to research code release.

Articles

bíogo: a simple high-performance bioinformatics toolkit for the Go language

Analysis of Illumina sequencing data using bíogo

Using and extending types in bíogo

Yet Another Bioinformatics Library

It seems that nearly every language has it own bioinformatics library, some of which are very mature, for example BioPerl and BioPython. Why add another one?

The different libraries excel in different fields, acting as scripting glue for applications in a pipeline (much of [1, 2, 3]) and interacting with external hosts [1, 2, 4, 5], wrapping lower level high performance languages with more user friendly syntax [1, 2, 3, 4] or providing bioinformatics functions for high performance languages [5, 6].

The intended niche for bíogo lies somewhere between the scripting libraries and high performance language libraries in being easy to use for both small and large projects while having reasonable performance with computationally intensive tasks.

The intent is to reduce the level of investment required to develop new research software for computationally intensive tasks.

Library Structure and Coding Style

The bíogo library structure is influenced both by the Go core library.

The coding style should be aligned with normal Go idioms as represented in the Go core libraries.

Quality Scores

Quality scores are supported for all sequence types, including protein. Phred and Solexa scoring systems are able to be read from files, however internal representation of quality scores is with Phred, so there will be precision loss in conversion. A Solexa quality score type is provided for use where this will be a problem.

Copyright and License

BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.

Documentation ¶

Overview ¶

bíogo is a bioinformatics library for the Go language. It is a work in progress.

The Purpose of bíogo ¶

bíogo stems from the need to address the size and structure of modern genomic and metagenomic data sets. These properties enforce requirements on the libraries and languages used for analysis:

speed - size of data sets
concurrency - problems often embarrassingly parallelisable

In addition to the computational burden of massive data set sizes in modern genomics there is an increasing need for complex pipelines to resolve questions in tightening problem space and also a developing need to be able to develop new algorithms to allow novel approaches to interesting questions. These issues suggest the need for a simplicity in syntax to facilitate:

ease of coding
checking for correctness in development and particularly in peer review

Related to the second issue is the reluctance of some researchers to release code because of quality concerns http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467753a.html

The issue of code release is the first of the principles formalised in the Science Code Manifesto http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/

 Code	All source code written specifically to process data for a published
	paper must be available to the reviewers and readers of the paper.

A language with a simple, yet expressive, syntax should facilitate development of higher quality code and thus help reduce this barrier to research code release.

Yet Another Bioinformatics Library ¶

It seems that nearly every language has it own bioinformatics library, some of which are very mature, for example BioPerl and BioPython. Why add another one?

The different libraries excel in different fields, acting as scripting glue for applications in a pipeline (much of [1-3]) and interacting with external hosts [1, 2, 4, 5], wrapping lower level high performance languages with more user friendly syntax [1-4] or providing bioinformatics functions for high performance languages [5, 6].

The intended niche for bíogo lies somewhere between the scripting libraries and high performance language libraries in being easy to use for both small and large projects while having reasonable performance with computationally intensive tasks.

The intent is to reduce the level of investment required to develop new research software for computationally intensive tasks.

 [1] BioPerl http://bioperl.org/
 	http://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/10/1611.full
 	http://www.springerlink.com/content/pp72033m171568p2

 [2] BioPython http://biopython.org/
	http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/11/1422

 [3] BioRuby http://bioruby.org/
 	http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/20/2617

 [4] PyCogent http://pycogent.sourceforge.net/
 	http://genomebiology.com/2007/8/8/R171

 [5] BioJava http://biojava.org/
	http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/18/2096

 [6] SeqAn http://www.seqan.de/
 	http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/11

Library Structure and Coding Style ¶

The bíogo library structure is influenced both by the structure of BioPerl and the Go core libraries.

The coding style should be aligned with normal Go idioms as represented in the Go core libraries.

Position Numbering ¶

Position numbering in the bíogo library conforms to the zero-based indexing of Go and range indexing conforms to Go's half-open zero-based slice indexing. This is at odds with the 'normal' inclusive indexing used by molecular biologists. This choice was made to avoid inconsistent indexing spaces being used — one-based inclusive for bíogo functions and methods and zero-based for native Go slices and arrays — and so avoid errors that this would otherwise facilitate. Note that the GFF package does allow, and defaults to, one-based inclusive indexing in its input and output of GFF files.

EWD831 Why numbering should start at zero

To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the
pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us

a) 2 ≤ i< 13
b) 1 < i≤ 12
c) 2 ≤ i≤ 12
d) 1 < i< 13

Are there reasons to prefer one convention to the other? Yes, there are.
The observation that conventions a) and b) have the advantage that the
difference between the bounds as mentioned equals the length of the
subsequence is valid. So is the observation that, as a consequence, in
either convention two subsequences are adjacent means that the upper
bound of the one equals the lower bound of the other. Valid as these
observations are, they don't enable us to choose between a) and b); so
let us start afresh.

There is a smallest natural number. Exclusion of the lower bound —as in
b) and d)— forces for a subsequence starting at the smallest natural
number the lower bound as mentioned into the realm of the unnatural
numbers. That is ugly, so for the lower bound we prefer the ≤ as in a)
and c). Consider now the subsequences starting at the smallest natural
number: inclusion of the upper bound would then force the latter to be
unnatural by the time the sequence has shrunk to the empty one. That is
ugly, so for the upper bound we prefer < as in a) and d). We conclude
that convention a) is to be preferred.

Remark  The programming language Mesa, developed at Xerox PARC, has
special notations for intervals of integers in all four conventions.
Extensive experience with Mesa has shown that the use of the other three
conventions has been a constant source of clumsiness and mistakes, and
on account of that experience Mesa programmers are now strongly advised
not to use the latter three available features. I mention this
experimental evidence —for what it is worth— because some people feel
uncomfortable with conclusions that have not been confirmed in practice.
(End of Remark.)

			*                *
				*

When dealing with a sequence of length N, the elements of which we wish
to distinguish by subscript, the next vexing question is what subscript
value to assign to its starting element. Adhering to convention a)
yields, when starting with subscript 1, the subscript range 1 ≤  i <
N+1; starting with 0, however, gives the nicer range 0 ≤   i <  N. So
let us let our ordinals start at zero: an element's ordinal (subscript)
equals the number of elements preceding it in the sequence. And the
moral of the story is that we had better regard —after all those
centuries!— zero as a most natural number.

Remark  Many programming languages have been designed without due
attention to this detail. In FORTRAN subscripts always start at 1; in
ALGOL 60 and in PASCAL, convention c) has been adopted; the more recent
SASL has fallen back on the FORTRAN convention: a sequence in SASL is at
the same time a function on the positive integers. Pity! (End of
Remark.)

			*                *
				*

The above has been triggered by a recent incident, when, in an emotional
outburst, one of my mathematical colleagues at the University —not a
computing scientist— accused a number of younger computing scientists of
"pedantry" because —as they do by habit— they started numbering at zero.
He took consciously adopting the most sensible convention as a
provocation. (Also the "End of ..." convention is viewed of as
provocative; but the convention is useful: I know of a student who
almost failed at an examination by the tacit assumption that the
questions ended at the bottom of the first page.) I think Antony Jay is
right when he states: "In corporate religions as in others, the heretic
must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but
because of the possibility that he is right."

Plataanstraat 5		11 August 1982
5671 AL NUENEN		prof.dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra
The Netherlands		Burroughs Research Fellow

Quality Scores ¶

Quality scores are supported for all sequence types, including protein. Phred and Solexa scoring systems are able to be read from files, however internal representation of quality scores is with Phred, so there will be precision loss in conversion. A Solexa quality score type is provided for use where this will be a problem.

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align Package align provide basic sequence alignment types and helpers.	Package align provide basic sequence alignment types and helpers.
matrix Package matrix provides a variety of alignment scoring matrices for sequence alignment.	Package matrix provides a variety of alignment scoring matrices for sequence alignment.
pals Package pals implements functions and methods required for PALS sequence alignment.	Package pals implements functions and methods required for PALS sequence alignment.
pals/dp Package providing PALS dynamic programming alignment routines.	Package providing PALS dynamic programming alignment routines.
pals/filter Package providing PALS sequence hit filter routines based on 'Efficient q-gram filters for finding all 𝛜-matches over a given length.' Kim R. Rasmussen, Jens Stoye, and Eugene W. Myers.	Package providing PALS sequence hit filter routines based on 'Efficient q-gram filters for finding all 𝛜-matches over a given length.' Kim R. Rasmussen, Jens Stoye, and Eugene W. Myers.
alphabet Package alphabet describes biological sequence letters, including quality scores.	Package alphabet describes biological sequence letters, including quality scores.
complexity Package complexity provides routines for evaluating sequence complexity.	Package complexity provides routines for evaluating sequence complexity.
concurrent Package to apply a function over an array or stream of data.	Package to apply a function over an array or stream of data.
errors Package errors supports generic rich error reporting.	Package errors supports generic rich error reporting.
feat Package feat provides the base for storage and manipulation of biological interval information.	Package feat provides the base for storage and manipulation of biological interval information.
gene Package gene contains the types and methods to handle the definition of a gene.	Package gene contains the types and methods to handle the definition of a gene.
genome Package genome defines types useful for representing cytogenetic features.	Package genome defines types useful for representing cytogenetic features.
genome/cow/bt7 Package bt7 defines chromosome and assembly fragment intervals for the bt7 genome assembly for cow.	Package bt7 defines chromosome and assembly fragment intervals for the bt7 genome assembly for cow.
genome/drosophila/dm3 Package dm3 defines chromosome and band intervals for the drosophila karyotype based on the dm3 assembly.	Package dm3 defines chromosome and band intervals for the drosophila karyotype based on the dm3 assembly.
genome/human/hg19 Package hg19 defines chromosome and band intervals for the human karyotype based on the hg19 assembly.	Package hg19 defines chromosome and band intervals for the human karyotype based on the hg19 assembly.
genome/mouse/mm10 Package mm10 defines chromosome and band intervals for the mouse karyotype based on the mm10 assembly.	Package mm10 defines chromosome and band intervals for the mouse karyotype based on the mm10 assembly.
index
kmerindex Package kmerindex performs Kmer indexing package based on Bob Edgar and Gene Meyers' approach used in PALS.	Package kmerindex performs Kmer indexing package based on Bob Edgar and Gene Meyers' approach used in PALS.
io
featio Package featio provides interfaces for feature I/O functions.	Package featio provides interfaces for feature I/O functions.
featio/bed Package bed provides types to read and write BED format files according to the UCSC specification.	Package bed provides types to read and write BED format files according to the UCSC specification.
featio/gff Package gff provides types to read and write version 2 General Feature Format files according to the Sanger Institute specification.	Package gff provides types to read and write version 2 General Feature Format files according to the Sanger Institute specification.
seqio Package seqio provides interfaces for sequence I/O functions.	Package seqio provides interfaces for sequence I/O functions.
seqio/alignio Package alignio for reading and writing multiple sequence alignment files	Package alignio for reading and writing multiple sequence alignment files
seqio/fai Package fai implements FAI fasta sequence file index handling.	Package fai implements FAI fasta sequence file index handling.
seqio/fasta Package fasta provides types to read and write FASTA format files.	Package fasta provides types to read and write FASTA format files.
seqio/fastq Package fastq provides types to read and write FASTQ format files.	Package fastq provides types to read and write FASTQ format files.
morass Package morass implements file system-backed sorting.	Package morass implements file system-backed sorting.
pwm Package pwm implements a position weight matrix search based on an algorithm by Deborah Toledo Flores.	Package pwm implements a position weight matrix search based on an algorithm by Deborah Toledo Flores.
seq Package seq provides the base for storage and manipulation of biological sequence information.	Package seq provides the base for storage and manipulation of biological sequence information.
alignment Package alignment handles aligned sequences stored as columns.	Package alignment handles aligned sequences stored as columns.
linear Package linear handles single sequences.	Package linear handles single sequences.
multi Package multi handles collections of sequences as alignments or sets.	Package multi handles collections of sequences as alignments or sets.
quality
sequtils Package sequtils provides generic functions for manipulation of biogo/seq/...	Package sequtils provides generic functions for manipulation of biogo/seq/...
util Package util provides some commonly used functions.	Package util provides some commonly used functions.