PLINK Bed-Reader now available in both Python and Rust

[CarlKCarlK]

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 on the software engineering behind the Rust version.

• Python: PyPi or GitHub
• Rust: crates.io

• Carl