[Biopython-dev] Alignment object

[Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@bioinformed.com>]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Aaron Quinlan <aaronquinlan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just an FYI for those interested in developing tools to work with BAM: it
> may also be worth looking into the BamTools C++ API developed by Derek
> Barnett at Boston College (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bamtools/).
>  The API is quite nice and has much of the necessary functionality for
> iterators, getters/setters, etc.
>
> I added BAM support for my BEDTools package (
> http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/) using the BAMTools libraries.  Save
> for a few minor bugs along the way, it was rather straightforward to
> include.
>

Thanks for the tip, Aaron.  I was unaware of both bamtools and bedtools.
 The bamtools code looks well designed and quite similar to my emerging
Cython/Python rendition.

-Kevin