lendisto: length distribution for records in common bioinformatics files

lendisto is an API and command line app to calculate the length distribution of the records in common bioinformatics files. Currently supported are FASTA, FASTQ and BED files. The API tries to be safe for concurrent use.

An example of how to use the provided command line apps.

Given the following file1.bed and file2.bed

$> cat file1.bed
chr1	0	2
chr2	0	7
chr2	10	15

$> cat file2.bed
chrX	0	2
chrX	10	15
chrX	10	15
chrY	0	7
chrY	0	7
chrY	0	7
chrY	0	7

the command

bed-len-distro file1.bed file2.bed

prints

len	count	density
0	0	0
1	0	0
2	2	0.2
3	0	0
4	0	0
5	3	0.3
6	0	0
7	5	0.5