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Good Bioinformatics Library In C Similar To Biopython?

Hi,

There's a previous question about bioinformatics libraries in C/C++. Most of the answers were C++ libraries.

I'd like to do some lightweight development using C instead of C++, which I think is a bit too complicated (especially when it comes to good memory management).

Are there any good suggestions? Thanks.

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updated by Yu • Yu • written by Tianyang Li • Tianyang Li

Why not choose a high level language then?

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written by Michael Schubert Michael Schubert

I disagree that C++ is more complicated for memory management. They have all of the STL data structures plus destructors are automatically called when an object passes out of scope. With C you have to remember to free everything you allocate yourself.

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written by Gww Gww

I think you'll find that general purpose bioinformatics libraries in C are hard to come by. If you know, specifically, what you want to do, that might help folks answer better.

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written by Sean Davis Sean Davis

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See the :

I'd like to do some lightweight development using C instead of C+++, which I think is a bit too complicated

makes no sense to me.

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Jim Kent's source code, which is the core for UCSC genome database and browser. http://genome.ucsc.edu/ http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/git.html

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