title: Pybedtools: a flexible Python library for manipulating genomic datasets and annotations.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  pybedtools is a flexible Python software library for manipulating and exploring genomic datasets in many common formats. It provides an intuitive Python interface that extends upon the popular BEDTools genome arithmetic tools. The library is well documented and efficient, and allows researchers to quickly develop simple, yet powerful scripts that enable complex genomic analyses.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  pybedtools is maintained under the GPL license. Stable versions of pybedtools as well as documentation are available on the Python Package Index at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pybedtools.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  dalerr@niddk.nih.gov; arq5x@virginia.edu
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. dalerr@niddk.nih.gov
authors.forename: Ryan K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Dale
authors.forename: Brent S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: Aaron R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Quinlan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D023281:Genomics; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D012984:Software