TextFormats: Simplifying the definition and parsing of text formats in bioinformatics.

ABSTRACT: Text formats are common in bioinformatics, as they allow for editing and filtering using standard tools, as well as, since text formats are often human readable, manual inspection and evaluation of the data. Bioinformatics is a rapidly evolving field, hence, new techniques, new software tools, new kinds of data often require the definition of new formats. Often new formats are not formally described in a standard or specification document. Although software libraries are available for accessing the most common formats, writing parsers for text formats, for which no library is currently available, is a very common though tedious task, utilized by many researchers in the field. This manuscript presents the open source software library and toolset TextFormats (available at https://github.com/

SUBMITTER: Gonnella G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9135226 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature