Introduction
BIOSEG is an implementation of a biological sequence interval/range type for PostgreSQL. A PostgreSQL GiST index is used to improve the speed of overlap, contains and contained-in queries
Installation instructions and documentation are in the README.
Features
- adds a PostgreSQL integer range type
- fast querying of overlap, contains and contained-in queries
- inter-base or 1-based coordinate system
See the bioseg usage page for examples.
BIOSEG has been tested with PostgreSQL 8.2 and 8.3
Downloads
Releases are listed in the files section
of the project pages.
The development code is available in a
subversion repository at Bioinformatics.org. It can be checked out with this command:
svn checkout svn://bioinformatics.org/svnroot/bioseg/trunk bioseg