Top 7 Go Bioinformatic Projects

seqkit

3 1,200 8.6 Go

A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation

Project mention: A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-11

I've been thinking to learn Rust for these use cases, but always get frustrated with the complexity.
I find Go is a great middle-ground though! And now there starts to be a few more bio-related tools and toolkits out there, including:
- https://github.com/vertgenlab/gonomics
- https://github.com/biogo/biogo
- https://github.com/shenwei356/bio
... except from there being some really popular bio tools written in Go, like:
- https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit

scipipe

1 1,054 3.0 Go

Robust, flexible and resource-efficient pipelines using Go and the commandline
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
csvtk

7 950 8.3 Go

A cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit in Golang

Project mention: Align primers to a reference sequence. | /r/bioinformatics | 2023-07-11

No problem. You might also be interested in csvtk https://github.com/shenwei356/csvtk from the same group. Very handy set of tools.

rush

1 829 6.1 Go

A cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel (by shenwei356)
poly

24 648 8.2 Go

A Go package for engineering organisms.

Project mention: Looking for an Open Source project to participate in for Google Summer of Code | /r/golang | 2023-12-10

bio

1 88 6.5 Go

A lightweight and high-performance bioinformatics package in Golang (by shenwei356)

Project mention: A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-11

I've been thinking to learn Rust for these use cases, but always get frustrated with the complexity.
I find Go is a great middle-ground though! And now there starts to be a few more bio-related tools and toolkits out there, including:
- https://github.com/vertgenlab/gonomics
- https://github.com/biogo/biogo
- https://github.com/shenwei356/bio
... except from there being some really popular bio tools written in Go, like:
- https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit

frackyfrac

1 2 6.2 Go

A standalone UniFrac calculator.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).