Greetings, I'm happy to announce that the PLINK Bed-Reader (used by FaST-LMM and other packages), is now available in both Python (as before) and the Rust language (new). Python will remain the main language for the FaST-LMM family of tools. Rust is a very efficient system-level language (like C or C++) that offers memory safety (like Python). We have a new article in Towards Data Science<https://towardsdatascience.com/nine-rules-for-elegant-rust-library-apis-9b98...> on the software engineering behind the Rust version. * Python: PyPi<https://pypi.org/project/bed-reader/> or GitHub<https://github.com/fastlmm/bed-reader> * Rust: crates.io<https://crates.io/crates/bed-reader> * Carl Carl Kadie, Ph.D. FaST-LMM & PySnpTools Team (Microsoft Research, retired) Join the FaST-LMM user discussion and announcement list via email<mailto:fastlmm-user-join@python.org?subject=Subscribe> (or use web sign up<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.python.org%2Fmailman3%2Flists%2Ffastlmm-user.python.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7C540f44c603f74286262e08d7bf9aa5bc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637188543563267798&sdata=yLg%2FFSbov8heBrDG0d4WAYZd%2B%2BkSjoZZMGrkYUZAD3I%3D&reserved=0>)