bit: a multipurpose collection of bioinformatics tools
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: bit is a collection of small scripts and programs that facilitate many common tasks in bioinformatics. It operates in a Unix-like command-line environment and is comprised of bash and python code. bit is openly available on GitHub, archived with Zenodo, and is conda installable. The package is useful for users who want to do things such as manipulate fasta files, calculate GC content, quickly summarize nucleotide assemblies, easily download assemblies from NCBI just based on accessions, pull amino-acid sequences from GenBank files, calculate Shannon uncertainty for columns in multiple sequence alignments, and more. The source code is hosted on GitHub: github.com/AstrobioMike/bit
Source: F1000Research
Author: Michael Lee
Institution: Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,350
OpenAlex ID: W4210600237