Web Bio Tools

Warning: This project is experimental and untested.

Rust implementation of some simple bioinformatics tools designed to run in the browser (using WebAssembly).

Live version: https://web-bio-tools.big-data-biology.org/

Saved alignments can generate shareable URLs that reproduce the alignment when opened.

Local development

For building, you can use wasm-pack to compile the Rust code to WebAssembly. Make sure you have it installed (you can install it via cargo install wasm-pack) and then run:

wasm-pack build --target web

The Python bindings are optional. To build them with maturin, enable the python feature:

maturin build --features python

You can test the tools in your browser by running a local server. For example, using Python:

python -m http.server

Then, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE.MIT file for details.

Authors

• Luis Pedro Coelho