Abstract
Computational biology requires the reading and comprehension of biological data files. Plain-text formats such as SAM, VCF, GTF, PDB and FASTA, often contain critical information that is obfuscated by the complexity of the data structures. bioSyntax (http://bioSyntax.org) is a freely available suite of syntax highlighting packages for vim, gedit, Sublime, and less, which aids computational scientists to parse and work with their data more efficiently.
List of Abbreviations
- GTF
- : Gene Transfer Format
- IUPAC
- : International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- PDB
- : Protein Database Format
- SAM
- : Sequence Alignment Map
- VCF
- : Variant Call Format
Copyright
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Posted December 20, 2017.
