bit: a multipurpose collection of bioinformatics tools
Michael Lee
Abstract
<ns3:p> <ns3:italic>bit</ns3:italic> is a collection of small scripts and programs that facilitate many common tasks in bioinformatics. It operates in a Unix-like command-line environment and is comprised of bash and python code. <ns3:italic>bit</ns3:italic> is openly available on GitHub, archived with Zenodo, and is conda installable. The package is useful for users who want to do things such as manipulate fasta files, calculate GC content, quickly summarize nucleotide assemblies, easily download assemblies from NCBI just based on accessions, pull amino-acid sequences from GenBank files, calculate Shannon uncertainty for columns in multiple sequence alignments, and more. The source code is hosted on GitHub: github.com/AstrobioMike/bit </ns3:p>