libBigWig
A C library for handling bigWig files (by dpryan79)
bbi-js
Parser for bigwig and bigbed files (by GMOD)
libBigWig | bbi-js | |
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1 | 1 | |
71 | 7 | |
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0.0 | 6.7 | |
almost 2 years ago | 2 months ago | |
C | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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libBigWig
Posts with mentions or reviews of libBigWig.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.
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Technical specification for the bigWig file format
And that is using libBigWig which specifically references Kent Utils.
bbi-js
Posts with mentions or reviews of bbi-js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.
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Technical specification for the bigWig file format
in the javascript world I created https://github.com/GMOD/bbi-js to parse bigwig and bigbed (it's a little overly complicated but could be a reference)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libBigWig and bbi-js you can also consider the following projects:
samtools - Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data
bwa - Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)