pybigtools 0.2.4

Python bindings to the Bigtools Rust library for high-performance BigWig and BigBed I/O

The pybigtools python package wraps the bigtools Rust library and allows effecient reading and writing of bigWig and bigBed files.

Documenation

Documentation is available on readthedocs.

Examples

(Replace <path> with the path to a bigWig file or url)

Iterator of intervals

import pybigtools
b = pybigtools.open(<path>)
i = b.intervals("chr1")
print(next(i))

Numpy array of values

import pybigtools
b = pybigtools.open(<path>)
a = b.values("chr1")
print(a.shape)

Open a file-like object

import pybigtools
b = pybigtools.open(open(<path>, 'rb'))
a = b.values("chr1")
print(a.shape)