NOTICE:

Since julia version 1.0 and the new Pkg system, the purpose of this package has become moot. You can still download and use this package as a conveinience, but consider instead managing the BioJulia packages you're using with Pkg and its support for isolated projects. See the list below to find the BioJulia packages that provide this package's modules now.

This package is inactive, meaning that updates to it will only be made as and when time allows.

Bio provides a framework for computational biology and bioinformatics.

This version of Bio package is actually better described as a meta-package. It actually consolidates many other smaller packages in the BioJulia package ecosystem and makes them easier to install and use together, with less worry about version compatiblity and dependencies.

Bio has the current feature modules, go check out their documentation pages to see how they work and how to use them:

• Bio.Seq: A biological sequences module (provided by BioSequences.jl)
  • Biological symbols (DNA, RNA and amino acid)
  • Biological sequences
  • Sequence search algorithms
  • Readers for FASTA, FASTQ and .2bit file formats
• Bio.Align: Sequence alignment (provided by BioAlignments.jl)
  • Alignment data structures
  • Pairwise alignment algorithms
  • Reader for SAM and BAM file formats
• Bio.Intervals: Genomic intervals and annotations (provided by GenomicFeatures.jl)
  • Genomic intervals with annotations
  • Readers for BED, bigWig, bigBed and GFF3 file formats
• Bio.Structure: Molecular structures (provided by BioStructures.jl)
  • Macromolecular structures (e.g. proteins)
  • Reader for PDB file format
• Bio.Var: Biological variation (provided by GeneticVariation.jl)
  • Mutation counting
  • Genetic and evolutionary distances
  • Readers for VCF and BCF file formats
• Bio.Phylo: Phylogenetics (provided by Phylogenies.jl)
  • Phylogenetic trees
• Bio.Services: APIs to other services (provided by BioServices.jl)
  • Entrez utilities (E-utilities)
• Bio.Tools: A module for running command line tools (provided by BioTools.jl)
  • Run BLAST and parse its output

Install Bio from the Julia REPL:

using Pkg
add("Bio")

If you are interested in the cutting edge of the development, please check out the master branch to try new features before release.

Bio is a meta-package, and testing on CI infrastructure currently takes to long. Each Bio release is tested on desktop before release, but if you run into problems, please don't hesitate to contact a member of BioJulia.

We appreciate contributions from users including reporting bugs, fixing issues, improving performance and adding new features.

Take a look at the contributing files detailed contributor and maintainer guidelines, and code of conduct.

We also welcome financial contributions in full transparency on our open collective. Anyone can file an expense. If the expense makes sense for the development of the community, it will be "merged" in the ledger of our open collective by the core contributors and the person who filed the expense will be reimbursed.

Thank you to all our backers and sponsors!

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If you have a question about contributing or using BioJulia software, come on over and chat to us on Gitter, or you can try the Bio category of the Julia discourse site.