# sonLib

**Repository Path**: CHANyp/sonLib

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: sonLib
- **Description**: tools for bioinformatics

- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-10-20
- **Last Updated**: 2022-10-20

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# sonLib
**sonLib** is a compact C/Python library for sequence analysis in bioinformatics. 

(c) 2006 - 2012 The Author(s). See <code>LICENSE.txt</code> for details.

## Author
[Benedict Paten](https://github.com/benedictpaten/)

## Description
For basic data-structures in C it contains: 

 * array lists (automatically resizing) 
 * hashes
 * sets (backed by hashes)
 * sorted sets (backed by an AVL tree)
 * containers (for putting primitives into the above data-structures)
 * better string functions
 * simple exception mechanism
 * logging functions 

For bioinformatic data-structures it contains (or will contain):

 * Fasta I/O functions
 * MAF I/O functions
 * Newick tree I/O functions

For more details see the Full README in doc/README