btllib を Homebrew, apt でインストール

プロジェクトリンク

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コマンドとエイリアス

• indexlr
• mi_bf_generate
• randseq

プロジェクトの歴史

The public git history starts in July 2019 with licensing, CI, and sequence-code commits. By 2020 the project had v1.0.0 tags, and it continued active releases through at least v1.7.8 in 2026.

The README presents btllib as a C++ library with Python wrappers, Linux and macOS support, Meson/Ninja builds, generated wrappers, Doxygen documentation, and generated executables installed under the package prefix.

採用の歴史

The README recommends Conda/Bioconda for users, while Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu packaging in the input show that btllib also entered general system package collections. Its JOSS publication in 2022 gave the project a citable software record for research use.

btllib is less a user-facing CLI than a packaged scientific dependency: package managers make its headers, static library, Python wrappers, and helper executables available to bioinformatics pipelines.

使われ方

Developers link C++ code against libbtllib, include btllib headers, or import the generated Python wrappers. Runtime workflows can rely on external tools such as SAMtools and compression utilities, and btllib-generated executables are installed under the package prefix's bin directory.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

btllib matters in package history because it is research infrastructure: a shared lab library that crossed from source builds into Bioconda, Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu, while carrying a formal software citation through JOSS.

タイムライン

• 2019: Public repository history starts with license, CI, and sequence-code setup.
• 2020: v1.0.0 appears in git history.
• 2022: JOSS publishes the btllib software paper.
• 2026: v1.7.8 appears in git history.

Related projects

• The README credits ntHash, MIBloomFilter, aaHash, cpptoml, and sdsl-lite components or dependencies.
• The README documents SAMtools and compression tools as runtime dependencies for particular file formats and workflows.
• Bioconda is the recommended user installation channel in the README.

ソース

• JOSS page records the 2022 paper 'btllib: A C++ library with Python interface for efficient genomic sequence processing': https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04720
• Local git history from https://github.com/bcgsc/btllib shows first commits in 2019, v1.0.0 in 2020, and v1.7.8 in 2026.
• Official README describes btllib as a Bioinformatics Technology Lab common code library in C++ with Python wrappers: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcgsc/btllib/master/README.md
• Official README documents Conda/Bioconda installation, C++ linking, Python wrappers, executables, developer commands, credits, and citation instructions: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcgsc/btllib/master/README.md
• Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.