Models

This module stores models for entities so they can be handled in the same way, independently of the format of the file they were read from. The most commonly used fields are explicitly specified, and at the same time the entities provide mechanisms for preserving all the information of a certain format. For a variant, the specified fields would be (among others) chromosome, position, reference and alternatives; if a VCF file is being stored, then columns such as INFO are also saved in a key-value data structure.

Variants

Alignments