Minimal representations of DNA and RNA genetic sequences using BitArrays in Julia.

The current release can be installed from the Julia REPL with:

pkg> add GeneticBitArrays

The development version (master branch) can be installed with:

pkg> add GeneticBitArrays#master

Input using String, Vector{Char} with nucleotides indicated by their IUPAC code. You may also construct a sequence with a 4 x n BitArray - the same way sequences are represented internally with this package.

julia> x = DNASeq("NVHMDRWABSYCKGT-")

16nt DNA sequence
NVHMDRWABSYCKGT-

julia> x.data

4×16 BitArray{2}:
 1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
 1  1  1  1  0  0  0  0  1  1  1  1  0  0  0  0
 1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0
 1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0

• For a full featured package for biological sequences see BioSequences.jl.