Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Bioinformatics. 2011 Dec 15;27(24):3423-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr539. Epub 2011 Sep 23.
pybedtools is a flexible Python software library for manipulating and exploring genomic datasets in many common formats. It provides an intuitive Python interface that extends upon the popular BEDTools genome arithmetic tools. The library is well documented and efficient, and allows researchers to quickly develop simple, yet powerful scripts that enable complex genomic analyses.
pybedtools is maintained under the GPL license. Stable versions of pybedtools as well as documentation are available on the Python Package Index at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybedtools.
dalerr@niddk.nih.gov; arq5x@virginia.edu
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
pybedtools 是一个灵活的 Python 软件库，可用于处理和探索许多常见格式的基因组数据集。它提供了一个直观的 Python 接口，扩展了流行的 BEDTools 基因组算法工具。该库文档齐全，效率高，允许研究人员快速开发简单但功能强大的脚本，从而实现复杂的基因组分析。
pybedtools 遵循 GPL 许可证进行维护。pybedtools 的稳定版本以及文档可在 Python 包索引上获得，网址为 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybedtools。
dalerr@niddk.nih.gov；arq5x@virginia.edu
补充数据可在 Bioinformatics 在线获得。
