README.md

The code in this repository is deprecated and we do not advise its use

This legacy repository contains early development on the tabix and bgzip commands, tabix language bindings, and various associated code. This repository is now archived and of historical interest only. Most of these items are now superseded by improved versions elsewhere:

• The tabix and bgzip commands are at https://github.com/samtools/htslib

• The Java implementation is included in https://github.com/samtools/htsjdk (see src/main/java/htsjdk/tribble/readers/TabixReader.java)

• The Perl binding is superseded by https://github.com/Ensembl/Bio-DB-HTS (see in particular Bio::DB::HTS::Tabix)

• The Python binding is at https://github.com/slowkow/pytabix

• The tabix file format is described at https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs