tabixpp ☆

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Description:
C++ wrapper to tabix indexer

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: bioinformatics genomics c-plus-plus library indexing

Install: brew install tabixpp

About:
Tabixpp is a C++ wrapper around the tabix C library, designed for indexing and querying sorted genomic data files like BED, GFF, and VCF. It provides a streamlined C++ API that simplifies random access to compressed genomic intervals, making it a foundational component for high-performance bioinformatics tools.

Key Features:

C++ wrapper for the tabix C library
Enables fast random access to compressed, tabix-indexed files
Simplifies querying genomic regions (e.g., 'chr1:1000-2000')
Supports common bioinformatics formats (BED, GFF, VCF)

Use Cases:

Integrating tabix indexing and querying into C++ bioinformatics pipelines
Building high-performance tools that need to fetch specific genomic regions from large files
Parsing and analyzing data from bgzipped and indexed VCF or BED files

Alternatives:

pysam – A Python library with similar functionality but requires a Python environment; Tabixpp is a native C++ solution.
htslib – A comprehensive C library for handling genomic file formats; Tabixpp offers a more focused, lightweight wrapper for tabix-specific tasks.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jan 5, 2026 9:56pm		1	REVISION_ONLY	96de509b
Sep 11, 2025 10:30am		0	VERSION_BUMP	090206b4