bgzf

This library provides both high level readers and writers for the BGZF format as well as lower level compressor and decompressor functions.

Bgzf is a multi-gzip format that adds an extra field to the header indicating how large the complete block (with header and footer) is.

Documentation and Examples

Please see the generated Rust Docs.

How to use in your project

Add the following to your Cargo.toml dependencies section, updating the version number as needed.

toml [dependencies] bgzf = "*"

How to build and test locally

Assuming you have cloned the repo and are in the top level:

```bash cargo test

The following test is more comprehensive and may take up to 10 minutes to run

cargo test -- --ignored ```

How to publish

This assumes that you have installed cargo-release via cargo install cargo-release and have set up credentials with crates.io.

bash cargo release <path|minor|major>