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Python package

The refget Python package

The refget Python package provides a Python implementation of the GA4GH Refget Specifications, which define standards for identifying and distributing reference biological sequences, like reference genomes. It provides standards at 3 levels of data: sequences, sequence collections, and pangenomes (in progress).

The refget Python package includes these capabilities:

Standard Local use
(computing digests locally)
Client
(connecting to a remote API)
API
(implementing an http interface)
Agent
(managing a SQL database)
Sequences
Sequence Collections
Pangenomes X X

Install

The built package is hosted on PyPI. Install with your flavor of:

pip install refget