# polars-bio: Blazing-Fast Genomic Interval Operations on Python DataFrames **Title for Biostars:** polars-bio – fast, scalable genomic interval operations on Polars/Pandas DataFrames (now published in …

My lab develops high performance methods and tools for computational genomics (`salmon`, `oarfish`, `alevin-fry`, etc.). Previously, I've been a pretty outspoken skeptic on the quality …

https://biodatageeks.org/polars-bio/blog/2026/02/14/benchmarking-genomic-format-readers-in-python-with-polars/

We are running a **3-day, in-person introductory workshop** on **NGS data analysis and DNA variant calling**, and registration will close shortly. ---------- **A Practical Introduction …

For those looking for a **structured introduction to NGS data analysis and DNA variant calling**, we're running the same introductory workshop in **two formats** in …

Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes are currently experiencing reduced functionality due to a major incident at one of our data centres leading to many of our …

Motivated by [this question][1] I made a list of blogs I have in my RSS feed, which you can find below (in no particular order). …

Hi all, I'd like to introduce you a cross-platform and every fast FASTA/Q toolkit, Seqkit, written in Golang. - **Documents**: http://bioinf.shenwei.me/seqkit ([**Usage**][1], [**FAQ (New!)**][2], [**Tutorial**][3], …

As heatmaps in R are a recurring theme, I thought I'd collect information here: **1. List of heatmap functions (and packages) in R:** - [heatmap][1] …

There are several posts already on Biostars regarding the online courses which we could take for bioinformatics. I try to link all together and also …