sweetpalma / biolua

Computational biology for Lua.

BioLua

Copyright 2017 SweetPalma <[e-mail]>

Computational biology for Lua.

What is BioLua?

BioLua is a Lua library, done fast and convenient biological sequences computations. BioLua is:

• Active. BioLua is currently being actively developed, so if you wish to use it in your project - don't hesitate to contact me regarding any issues or feature requests.
• Fast. BioLua was built for vanilla Lua - which is very fast itself - but it can be also stacked with LuaJIT, what makes it extremely fast for processing large amounts of biological data.
• Free. BioLua is licensed under MIT license, which basically allows to use it absolutely for free.

Installation

BioLua can be installed with Luarocks:

$ luarocks install biolua

If you wish to add autocomplete and history to BioLua shell - you should install Linenoise too:

$ luarocks install linenoise

Tests can be run from tests folder:

$ cd tests
$ lua init.lua

Alternatively you can clone or download this repo and use "biolua" folder in your projects.

Usage

After successful installation you can run BioLua shell directly from your Terminal:

$ biolua

Or connect it as Lua library in your project:

local biolua = require 'biolua'
local seq = biolua.sequence.Nucleic 'atgcatgcaaaa'
print(seq:translate())
...

License

BioLua is licensed under the MIT License, what allows you to use it for basically anything absolutely for free.