tabixlike
Tabixlike refers to a class of software tools and libraries designed to enable fast random access to large, compressed, tab-delimited genomic data files by building a coordinate-based index. The concept is inspired by Tabix, a widely used tool for indexing and querying tab-delimited data such as VCF and BED files that are compressed with BGZF. A tabixlike solution typically creates an index that maps chromosomal coordinates to file offsets, allowing retrieval of records overlapping a specified region without decompressing the entire file.
Common characteristics include support for coordinate queries across multiple contigs, streaming query interfaces, and the ability
Tabixlike implementations may be provided as a standalone tool, a library, or as part of a broader
Use cases include population-scale variant data queries, annotation pipelines, and integration into genomic workflows that require