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January 2022

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New Bed-Reader 0.2.9: Writing Bed files now 3 to 6 times faster
by Carl K Jan. 28, 2022

Jan. 28, 2022

Greetings, We're happy to announce another new version of Bed-Reader, the sub-package of FaST-LMM and PySnpTools for reading and writing PLINK Bed 1.9 files. The new feature is multithreaded writing to Bed files. On my machine, with 6 processors, writing times for big files goes from 66 seconds to 11 seconds. (See this short Reddit/r/rust article<https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/sby5g5/solution_to_a_puzzle_any_nice…> on the software engineering details.) Also, if anyone needs a … [View More]

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New Bed-Reader 0.2.8: Now works with Python 3.10
by Carl K Jan. 17, 2022

Jan. 17, 2022

Greetings, We're happy to announce a new minor version of Bed-Reader. Bed-Reader is a sub-package of FaST-LMM and PySnpTools for reading PLINK Bed 1.9 files. The major new feature is support for Python 3.10. It continues to support Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9, so there is no reason to upgrade if it's working for you. Internally, we've updated the Rust libraries that it uses. (Last month I wrote an article about this software work: Nine Rules for Writing Python Extensions in Rust | by Carl M. … [View More]

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