bíogo: a simple high-performance bioinformatics toolkit for the Go language

We noticed earlier about GO language - “Why are Cool Kids at Github Moving to GO Language?”

Now Kortschak and Adelson posted a biorxiv paper about their framework to help bioinformaticians integrate GO in their work.

bogo is a framework designed to ease development and maintenance of computationally intensive bioinformatics applications. The library is written in the Go programming language, a garbage-collected, strictly typed compiled language with built in support for concurrent processing, and performance comparable to C and Java. It provides a variety of data types and utility functions to facilitate manipulation and analysis of large scale genomic and other biological data. bogo uses a concise and expressive syntax, lowering the barriers to entry for researchers needing to process large data sets with custom analyses while retaining computational safety and ease of code review. We believe bogo provides an excellent environment for training and research in computational biology because of its combination of strict typing, simple and expressive syntax, and high performance.