alen VS noodles

I just created Alen, a simple terminal-based (i.e. command-line) tool for viewing protein, DNA or RNA alignments.

I've just written my first real Rust program, Alen. It's an in-terminal biological sequence alignment viewer. To my great surprise, there wasn't really any good command-line alignment viewers out there: The existing alan and alv were poorly implemented and buggy.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Principal/Senior Staff/Staff Software Engineer, Rust Genomics Infrastructure | Memphis, TN | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.stjude.cloud/

The St. Jude Cloud (https://stjude.cloud) project is hiring Rust software engineers to rebuild the genomics ecosystem in Rust. We work on the forefront of computational genomics by applying advanced computational techniques to analyzing genomics data then sharing that data with the world. Come work with the individuals that wrote the Rust-based bioinformatics library, noodles (https://github.com/zaeleus/noodles), as well as many other projects (https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs).

NOTE that prior experience in bioinformatics or biology is NOT required for any of the positions below. We're just looking for amazing engineers, but rest assured, we teach biology/genomics/bioinformatics from scratch routinely. You must be interested in learning though! If you'd like to get a sense of what you'd be learning, check out the guide we wrote to teach software engineers about genomics here: https://learngenomics.dev.

If you have questions, you can reach out to me (the project lead) with questions at Clay.McLeod AT stjude DOT org.

* Principal: https://talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs/JR1800?lang=en-us

A rust library to parse bam/sam/vcf and all formats used in NGS already exists with noodle.