github.com/biogo/biogo@v1.0.4/paper/paper.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: 'bíogo: a simple high-performance bioinformatics toolkit for the Go language' 3 tags: 4 - bioinformatics 5 - toolkit 6 - golang 7 authors: 8 - name: R Daniel Kortschak 9 orcid: 0000-0001-8295-2301 10 affiliation: 1 11 - name: Josh Bleecher Snyder 12 orcid: 0000-0001-8327-7643 13 - name: Manolis Maragkakis 14 orcid: 0000-0002-3158-1763 15 affiliation: 2 16 - name: David L Adelson 17 orcid: 0000-0003-2404-5636 18 affiliation: 1 19 affiliations: 20 - name: School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide 21 index: 1 22 - name: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 23 index: 2 24 date: 6 January 2017 25 bibliography: paper.bib 26 --- 27 28 # Summary 29 30 bíogo is a framework designed to ease development and maintenance of computationally intensive bioinformatics applications [@biogo]. 31 The library is written in the Go programming language, a garbage-collected, strictly typed compiled language with built in support for concurrent processing, and performance comparable to C and Java. 32 It provides a variety of data types and utility functions to facilitate manipulation and analysis of large scale genomic and other biological data. bíogo uses a concise and expressive syntax, lowering the barriers to entry for researchers needing to process large data sets with custom analyses while retaining computational safety and ease of code review. 33 We believe bíogo provides an excellent environment for training and research in computational biology because of its combination of strict typing, simple and expressive syntax, and high performance. 34 35 # References