Working with wiggle tracks in Python
Project description
Wiggelen is a Python library for working with wiggle tracks (WIG files). It also provides a command line interface to some of its functionality.
The main goal of Wiggelen is to provide light-weight and unified access to wiggle tracks.
>>> import wiggelen
>>> for x in wiggelen.walk(open('test.wig')):
... print 'chr%s:%d\t%s' % x
...
chr18:34344 629.0
chr18:34345 649.0
chr18:34446 657.0
chrM:308 520.0
chrM:309 519.0
To install the latest release via PyPI using pip:
pip install wiggelen
Documentation
The latest documentation including a user guide and API reference is hosted at Read The Docs.
You can also compile the documentation directly from the source code by running make html from the doc/ subdirectory. This requires Sphinx to be installed.
Copyright
Wiggelen is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details. See the AUTHORS file for a list of authors.
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