使用 Homebrew 安装 bedtk

项目链接

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命令和别名

• bedtk

项目历史

The bedtk repository was created in October 2019, with the first visible commit adding interval intersection. Its README describes a simple BED toolset implementing intersection, subtraction, sorting, merging, and breadth-of-coverage calculations.

The project is tied to the 2021 Bioinformatics article 'Bedtk: finding interval overlap with implicit interval tree,' which explains its algorithmic focus. Upstream releases reached v1.0 in April 2025 and v1.2 in August 2025.

采用历史

The supplied package metadata lists Homebrew packaging. Upstream positions bedtk as a narrow, performance-oriented companion rather than a complete bedtools replacement.

使用方式

bedtk is used for operations such as filtering overlapping or non-overlapping BED/VCF records, intersection without pre-sorting, coverage breadth, sorting, and merging.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

bedtk is notable because it comes from the lh3 bioinformatics tool lineage and deliberately keeps the surface area small. It is the kind of package a genomics CLI user installs when they care about speed and memory more than a broad command catalog.

时间线

• 2019: Repository created and initial intersection work committed.
• 2021: bedtk paper published in Bioinformatics.
• 2025: v1.0, v1.1, and v1.2 releases published.

Related projects

• bedtools is explicitly named by upstream as broader and more versatile.
• cgranges is linked from the README and is related to the interval-overlap implementation family.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/lh3/bedtk
• https://github.com/lh3/bedtk#readme
• https://github.com/lh3/bedtk/releases
• source_facts.package-manager