oxbow

Read specialized bioinformatic file formats as data frames in R, Python, and more.

File formats create a lot of friction for computational biologists. Oxbow is a data unification layer that aims to improve data accessibility and ease of high-performance analytics.

Data I/O is handled in Rust with features exposed to Python and R via Apache Arrow.

Learn more in our recent blog post.

Docs

Read the latest Python and Rust API documentation.

Contributing

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Development

The oxbow project is split into separate Rust, Python, and R packages. You can download sample data by following these instructions.