Read Tabix-indexed files using either .tbi or .csi indexes.
$ npm install --save @gmod/tabix
// import with require in node.js
const { TabixIndexedFile } = require('@gmod/tabix')
// or with es6 imports, this will also give typescript types
import { TabixIndexedFile } from '@gmod/tabix'You can use tabix-js without NPM also with the tabix-bundle.js. See the example directory for usage with script tag example/index.html
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@gmod/tabix/dist/tabix-bundle.js"></script>Basic usage of TabixIndexedFile under node.js supplies a path and optionally a tbiPath to the constructor. If no tbiPath is supplied, it assumes that the path+'.tbi' is the location of the tbiPath.
// basic usage under node.js provides a file path on the filesystem to bgzipped file
// it assumes the tbi file is path+'.tbi' if no tbiPath is supplied
const tbiIndexed = new TabixIndexedFile({
path: 'path/to/my/file.gz'
tbiPath: 'path/to/my/file.gz.tbi'
})You can also use CSI indexes. Note also the usage of the renameRefSeqs
callback. The renameRefSeqs callback makes it so that you can use
file.getLines('1',0,100,...) even when the file itself contains names like
'chr1' (can also do the reverse by customizing the renameRefSeqs callback)
// can also open tabix files that have a .csi index
// note also usage of renameRefSeqs callback to trim chr off the chr names
const csiIndexed = new TabixIndexedFile({
path: 'path/to/my/file.gz',
csiPath: 'path/to/my/file.gz.csi'
renameRefSeqs: refSeq => refSeq.replace('chr','')
})const remoteTbiIndexed = new TabixIndexedFile({
url: 'http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz',
tbiUrl: 'http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz.tbi', // can also be csiUrl
})You can also alternatively supply a filehandle-like object with the generic-filehandle: example
// use a remote file or other filehandle, note RemoteFile comes from https://github.com/GMOD/generic-filehandle
const { RemoteFile } = require('generic-filehandle')
const remoteTbiIndexed = new TabixIndexedFile({
filehandle: new RemoteFile('http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz'),
tbiFilehandle: new RemoteFile('http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz.tbi'), // can also be csiFilehandle
})This works in both the browser and in node.js, but note that in node.js you may have to also supply a custom fetch function to the RemoteFile constructor e.g. like this
// for node.js you have to manually supply a fetch function e.g. node-fetch to RemoteFile
const fetch = require('node-fetch')
const remoteTbiIndexedForNodeJs = new TabixIndexedFile({
filehandle: new RemoteFile('http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz', { fetch }),
tbiFilehandle: new RemoteFile('http://yourhost/file.vcf.gz.tbi', { fetch }), // can also be csiFilehandle
})The basic function this module provides is just called getLines and it returns
text contents from the tabix file (it unzips the bgzipped data) and supplies it
to a callback that you provide one line at a time.
Important: the start and end values that are supplied to getLines are
0-based half-open coordinates. This is different from the 1-based values that
are supplied to the tabix command line tool
// iterate over lines in the specified region
const lines = []
await tbiIndexed.getLines('ctgA', 200, 300, function (line, fileOffset) {
lines.push(line)
})After running this, your lines array would contain an array of lines from the
file that match your query range
You can also supply some extra arguments to getLines with this format, but
these are sort of obscure and only used in some circumstances
const lines = []
const aborter = new AbortController()
await tbiIndexed.getLines('ctgA', 200, 300, {
lineCallback: (line, fileOffset) => lines.push(line),
signal: aborter.signal, // an optional AbortSignal from an AbortController
})After running the above demo, lines is now an array of strings, containing the lines from the tabix file
Notes about the returned values of getLines:
- commented (meta) lines are skipped.
- line strings do not include any trailing whitespace characters.
- the callback is also called with a
fileOffsetthat can be used to uniquely identify lines based on their virtual file offset where the line is found in the file - if
getLinesis called with an undefinedendparameter it gets all lines from start going to the end of the contig e.g.
const lines = []
await tbiIndexed.getLines('ctgA', 0, undefined, line=>lines.push(line))`
console.log(lines)- constructor
- getLines
- getHeaderBuffer
- getHeader
- getReferenceSequenceNames
- checkLine
- lineCount
- readChunk
-
argsobjectargs.pathstring?args.filehandlefilehandle?args.urlurl?args.tbiPathstring?args.tbiUrltbiUrl?args.tbiFilehandlefilehandle?args.csiPathstring?args.csiUrlcsiUrl?args.csiFilehandlefilehandle?args.yieldTimenumber? yield to main thread after N milliseconds if reading features is taking a long time to avoid hanging main thread (optional, default500)args.renameRefSeqsfunction? optional function with sigstring => stringto transform reference sequence names for the purpose of indexing and querying. note that the data that is returned is not altered, just the names of the reference sequences that are used for querying. (optional, defaultn=>n)args.chunkCacheSize(optional, default5*2**20)
refNamestring name of the reference sequences(number | undefined)e(number | undefined)opts(GetLinesOpts | GetLinesCallback) callback called for each line in the region. can also pass a object param containing obj.lineCallback, obj.signal, etcstartstart of the region (in 0-based half-open coordinates)endend of the region (in 0-based half-open coordinates)
Returns any promise that is resolved when the whole read is finished, rejected on error
get a buffer containing the "header" region of the file, which are the bytes up to the first non-meta line
optsOptions (optional, default{})
get a string containing the "header" region of the file, is the portion up to the first non-meta line
optsOptions (optional, default{})
Returns Promise for a string
get an array of reference sequence names, in the order in which they occur in the file. reference sequence renaming is not applied to these names.
optsOptions (optional, default{})
metadataobject metadata object from the parsed index, containing columnNumbers, metaChar, and formatregionRefNamestringregionStartnumber region start coordinate (0-based-half-open)regionEndnumber region end coordinate (0-based-half-open)linestring
Returns
object
like {startCoordinate, overlaps}. overlaps is boolean, true if line is a data
line that overlaps the given region
return the approximate number of data lines in the given reference sequence
refNamestringoptsOptions (optional, default{})refSeqreference sequence name
Returns any number of data lines present on that reference sequence
read and uncompress the data in a chunk (composed of one or more contiguous bgzip blocks) of the file
cChunkoptsOptions (optional, default{})
This package was written with funding from the NHGRI as part of the JBrowse project. If you use it in an academic project that you publish, please cite the most recent JBrowse paper, which will be linked from jbrowse.org.
MIT © Robert Buels