gffutils is a Python package for working with and manipulating the GFF and
GTF format files typically used for genomic annotations.
Files are loaded into a sqlite3 database, allowing much more complex manipulation of hierarchical features (e.g., genes, transcripts, and exons) than is possible with plain-text methods alone.
See documentation at https://daler.github.io/gffutils, and GitHub repo at https:/github.com/daler/gffutils.
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Work with GFF and GTF files in a flexible database framework
We found that gffutils demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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