bgzip provides streams for block gzip files.
Cython is used under the hood to bypass Python's GIL and provide fast, parallelized inflation/deflation.
with open("my_bgzipped_file.gz", "rb") as raw:
with bgzip.BGZipReader(raw) as fh:
data = fh.read(number_of_bytes)
with open("my_bgzipped_file.gz", "wb") as raw:
with bgzip.BGZipWriter(raw) as fh:
fh.write(my_data)
pip install bgzip
bgzip requires openmp. On MacOS it can be installed with:
brew install llvm
Project home page GitHub
Package distribution PyPI
Please report bugs, issues, feature requests, etc. on GitHub.
getm was created by Brian Hannafious at the UCSC Genomics Institute.
