Program in Medical Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Bioinformatics. 2011 Mar 1;27(5):718-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq671. Epub 2011 Jan 5.
Tabix is the first generic tool that indexes position sorted files in TAB-delimited formats such as GFF, BED, PSL, SAM and SQL export, and quickly retrieves features overlapping specified regions. Tabix features include few seek function calls per query, data compression with gzip compatibility and direct FTP/HTTP access. Tabix is implemented as a free command-line tool as well as a library in C, Java, Perl and Python. It is particularly useful for manually examining local genomic features on the command line and enables genome viewers to support huge data files and remote custom tracks over networks.
Tabix 是第一个通用工具，它索引以制表符分隔格式（如 GFF、BED、PSL、SAM 和 SQL 导出）排序的位置文件，并快速检索与指定区域重叠的特征。Tabix 的功能包括每个查询的少量查找功能调用、与 gzip 兼容的数据压缩以及直接的 FTP/HTTP 访问。Tabix 作为一个免费的命令行工具以及 C、Java、Perl 和 Python 中的库实现。它特别适用于在命令行上手动检查本地基因组特征，并使基因组查看器能够支持巨大的数据文件和远程自定义曲目在网络上。
