Sunday, November 22, 2015

File formats of bioinformatic programs

In bioinformatics we face the problem of manipulating huge volumes of data and most bioinformatic programs still use plain text as output. Each time a new program is released a new output format is created and new computer parsers should be programmed on every place the program is to be used. Using XML for storing outputs has started to be common in some well-known programs but it is not the best solution (for bioinformatic programs) available today. Here I show how to use SQLite in a very basic bioinformatic example.


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