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oxbow

Read specialized bioinformatic file formats as data frames in R, Python, and more

5 releases (3 breaking)

new 0.4.0-rc.1 May 14, 2025
0.3.1 Jan 26, 2024
0.3.0 Oct 26, 2023
0.2.0 Jul 30, 2023
0.1.0 May 16, 2023

#124 in Biology

MIT/Apache

480KB
12K SLoC

oxbow

DOI

Oxbow makes genomic data accessible for high-performance analytics.

Oxbow is a data unification layer that leverages the widely-adopted Apache Arrow in-memory format to improve accessibility and interoperability of tabular genomic data with the modern data ecosystem. Read specialized bioinformatic file formats as in-memory or larger-than-memory data frames in Python, R, and more. Data I/O is handled in Rust. Learn more from our blog post.

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Contributing

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