/sonLib

Small general purpose library for C and Python with focus on bioinformatics.

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

sonLib

sonLib is a compact C/Python library for sequence analysis in bioinformatics.

(c) 2006 - 2012 The Author(s). See LICENSE.txt for details.

Author

Benedict Paten

Description

For basic data-structures in C it contains:

  • array lists (automatically resizing)
  • hashes
  • sets (backed by hashes)
  • sorted sets (backed by an AVL tree)
  • containers (for putting primitives into the above data-structures)
  • better string functions
  • simple exception mechanism
  • logging functions

For bioinformatic data-structures it contains (or will contain):

  • Fasta I/O functions
  • MAF I/O functions
  • Newick tree I/O functions

For more details see the Full README in doc/README