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Roadmap: Planned Features & Milestones

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
8/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, javascript, rust, wasm
Domain
bioinformatics, data-visualization

Research direction

This is a roadmap checklist, not a task, and it names no files or entry points. Before starting, ask the maintainer which single unchecked item they want and open a separate issue for it. Only then read the parser code that item touches and the existing tests for it. Done means that item is implemented, tested, and checked off here.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Core Infrastructure
using Async where possible, parsing bioinformatic file types

  • Genbank parser
  • Embl parser
  • Conversions of formats into gbk/embl/fasta/ffn/faa and save as gff/gbk or embl
  • CI/CD with github actions and write tests - ongoing
  • Documentation with examples - ongoing

Format expansion
Integration of common types and parsers such as:

  • VCF
  • BLAST output in various modes, -5 (XML) and -6 (one line per hit), compat with Diamond, MMSeqs2
  • GTF
  • link ups with formats from rust-bio, noodles-vcf
  • look into metabolomics options (like KEGG) some are not open-source
  • fastq gzipped version parsing
  • SAM format parser
  • RPKM output parser
  • Support for other compressed files such as BAM and CRAM
  • Writer support for those types

Advanced features
Protein parameters such as:

  • Hydrophobicity
  • Molecular weight
  • Counted amino acids & as percentage
  • Aromaticity
  • Parsing phylogenetic trees
  • Parsing multiple sequence alignments
  • Methylation data parsing
  • Consider pyo3 integration

Testing - bioinformatics

  • Testing & updating parsers with various edge case files such as gbk with the CONTIG(JOIN) structure

Data Viz

  • Example heatmap with WASM and Js example
  • Simple graph types bar, line, scatter
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
38
Forks
15
Avg merge
21h 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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