Tabix is a bioinformatics software utility for indexing large genomic data files.[1][2][3] Tabix is free software under the MIT license.[4]
Benefits
edit- Speed: Without an index, extracting specific regions from large files would require scanning through the entire file. Tabix avoids this by jumping directly to the region of interest.
- Storage Efficiency: Tabix compresses the data using BGZF, which helps reduce storage requirements while still allowing for fast random access.
References
edit- ^ Li, Heng (March 1, 2011). "Tabix: fast retrieval of sequence features from generic TAB-delimited files". Bioinformatics. 27 (5): 718–719. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq671. ISSN 1367-4803. PMC 3042176. PMID 21208982.
- ^ Buffalo, Vince (2015). "Out-of-Memory Approaches: Tabix and SQLite". Bioinformatics data skills (1st ed.). California: O'Reilly. p. 427. ISBN 978-1-4493-6737-4. OCLC 916120899.
- ^ "VCF+tabix Track Format". UCSC Genome Browser. University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- ^ "Samtools/Htslib". GitHub. 2 May 2022.
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