Roadmap 2026

[jeff-k]

Anyone is welcome to contribute or suggest new stuff! bio-seq will keep a minimal scope but there's still a lot to do.

If there is no tracking issue linked with a task then feel free to open one.

Data storage backend

• Alternative bitvector storage API
• SIMD kmers #8
• Optimised reverse complement #9

Algorithms and API

• Masked sequences #5
• rolling hash friendly API / ntHash2

Examples and benchmarks

Application notes are very welcome contributions, see bio-seq/examples. Working through some Rosalind problems might be good to demonstrate.

• Complete test coverage (>90%)
• Benchmarks
• Large, memory mapped sequences
• Minimiser based something
• WebAssembly example

Fun future stuff

Not necessarily for 2026, but the kind of direction we can take a project that is still just a simple nucleotide sequence crate.

• Circular sequences
• WebGpu/wgsl example?
• python/pyo3 front-end?
• wavelet matrix or planar bit vector storage