What problem does it solve?
This Skill removes the friction of working with genomic interval data and bioinformatics files by giving you fast, Polars-native tools for overlap analysis, nearest-neighbor lookup, interval merging, coverage, subtraction, complement, and depth calculation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Genomic interval operations: Compare BED-like interval sets with overlap, count_overlaps, nearest, merge, cluster, coverage, complement, and subtract.
- Bioinformatics file I/O: Read, scan, write, and stream common formats such as BED, VCF, BAM, CRAM, GFF, GTF, FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, and Hi-C pairs.
- SQL and large-scale workflows: Register datasets as SQL tables, query them with DataFusion SQL, and handle large files with lazy execution, streaming, coordinate metadata, and cloud storage support.
- Use case: A computational biologist can load two peak sets, find overlaps, rank the nearest regulatory regions, and summarize coverage without leaving the Polars ecosystem.
Quick Start
Ask the assistant to use polars-bio to load your genomic files, run the interval or file I/O operation you need, and return the result as a Polars DataFrame.