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1# Bioinformatics and Genomics Formats
2
3**Reviewed:** 2026-09-30
4**Executable scope:** Bounded FASTA/FASTQ aggregate inspection only. All other
5formats below are reference-only.
6
7## Exact capability matrix
8
9| Format | Bundled inspection | What it does |
10|---|---|---|
11| `.fasta`, `.fa`, `.fna` | Optional, `biopython==1.88` | Streams a bounded record/base prefix; length, alphabet, ambiguity, GC, and duplicate-header-token aggregates |
12| `.fastq`, `.fq` | Optional, `biopython==1.88` | Same plus bounded Phred+33 quality aggregates |
13| Compressed FASTA/FASTQ | No | `.gz`, `.bz2`, archives, URLs, pipes, and stdin are rejected |
14| SAM/BAM/CRAM | No | Reference-only HTS tooling |
15| VCF/BCF/gVCF | No | Reference-only version/reference-aware tooling |
16| BED/GFF/GTF | No | Reference-only assembly and coordinate validation |
17| H5AD/Loom | No semantic support | Generic HDF5 metadata inspection does not validate these conventions |
18| Matrix Market + sidecars | No | Reference-only matrix/barcode/feature alignment workflow |
19
20Unknown formats fail closed. Sequence identifiers and sequence strings are
21never emitted. Header text is untrusted data and is never treated as an
22instruction.
23
24## FASTA
25
26FASTA is a record-oriented text convention: a `>` title line followed by
27sequence text, potentially wrapped across lines. The title is an identifier,
28not a trusted command, filename, URL, taxonomic fact, or unique database key.
29
30The bundled `sequence_inspector.py` uses Biopython 1.88's
31`SimpleFastaParser`, which the current Biopython tutorial recommends as a
32lower-overhead streaming parser for large FASTA files. It:
33
34- requires a local regular file with an approved suffix and leading record
35 marker;
36- decodes strict ASCII under a byte cap;
37- stops at explicit record and sequence-character limits;
38- hashes titles only to count duplicates, then discards them;
39- reports sequence lengths and a bounded alphabet/GC screen; and
40- does not infer organism, molecule type, assembly quality, or annotation.
41
42The nucleotide screen is heuristic. Protein sequences, modified alphabets, or
43domain-specific ambiguity codes require explicit interpretation.
44
45### Appropriate next checks
46
47- Confirm whether records are nucleotide, amino-acid, contigs, transcripts, or
48 aligned sequences.
49- Confirm circularity, expected alphabet, duplicate-ID policy, and whether
50 wrapping/whitespace has meaning.
51- For assemblies, calculate N50/L50 only after confirming the set of contigs
52 included and whether scaffolds/gaps are represented. N50 is not a universal
53 quality score.
54- Keep sample, subject, assembly, and reference-build metadata separate from
55 free-text headers.
56
57## FASTQ
58
59FASTQ combines a title, sequence, separator, and equal-length quality string.
60Biopython's `FastqGeneralIterator` is used to stream complete records without
61creating a list of all reads.
62
63The bundled report includes:
64
65- inspected read count and length aggregates;
66- nucleotide-like, ambiguity, and GC fractions;
67- Phred+33 minimum, maximum, and mean over inspected quality characters; and
68- duplicate title-token count.
69
70It does **not** determine an encoding from values. Confirm Phred+33 with
71instrument/pipeline provenance. It does not detect adapters, contaminants,
72overrepresented k-mers, per-cycle quality, index hopping, or paired-file
73consistency. Use established read-QC tooling for those tasks.
74
75Never automatically trim, filter, deduplicate, or discard reads from this
76report. Preserve the original and record every processing decision.
77
78## Reference-only alignment formats
79
80### SAM/BAM/CRAM
81
82Use an HTS-specification-aware, pinned tool such as samtools/htslib or pysam.
83Check:
84
85- header/reference sequence dictionary and reference assembly/version;
86- sort order, indexes, read groups, and sample/library/platform fields;
87- primary/secondary/supplementary/unmapped/duplicate/QC-fail flags;
88- mapping/base qualities, CIGAR validity, mate consistency, insert sizes, and
89 coverage; and
90- CRAM reference identity and availability.
91
92CRAM can require external reference sequence access. Keep the workflow local
93and explicitly provision the approved reference; do not let a parser fetch one
94implicitly.
95
96### VCF/BCF/gVCF
97
98The `.vcf` suffix does not establish the VCF version, reference build, sample
99semantics, normalization, or annotation validity. Use htslib/bcftools or
100another validated parser and inspect:
101
102- `##fileformat`, contig dictionary, reference assembly, FILTER/INFO/FORMAT
103 declarations, and sample count/order;
104- allele normalization, symbolic alleles, breakends, ploidy, phased status,
105 genotype missingness, depth/quality, and multiallelic records;
106- caller-specific filters and gVCF reference blocks; and
107- subject/family/population structure before allele-frequency or HWE screens.
108
109Variant EDA is descriptive. Population stratification, relatedness, selection,
110ascertainment, and multiple testing must be handled before inference.
111
112## Reference-only interval and annotation formats
113
114BED is generally zero-based, half-open; GFF3 is generally one-based, closed.
115GTF conventions vary. Never convert coordinates based only on a suffix.
116Confirm:
117
118- assembly and contig naming;
119- coordinate basis, endpoint convention, strand, phase, and score meanings;
120- required column count and version;
121- attribute escaping and parent/child relationships; and
122- sorting, overlaps, duplicates, out-of-range intervals, and sidecar indexes.
123
124Group EDA by biologically meaningful units, not only rows. An exon table may
125contain repeated genes/transcripts; treating rows as independent inflates
126sample size.
127
128## H5AD, Loom, and Matrix Market
129
130`.h5ad` and `.loom` are HDF5-based conventions. The generic HDF5 inspector may
131inventory groups/datasets without following links, but it does not read matrix
132values or verify required keys, sparse encodings, categorical arrays, layers,
133raw data, embeddings, or observation/variable alignment.
134
135For single-cell data, use pinned AnnData/Scanpy or Loom tooling and verify:
136
137- matrix orientation, shape, sparse encoding, and integer-count provenance;
138- uniqueness/alignment of observation and variable identifiers;
139- raw/count/normalized layers and transformations already applied;
140- sample, subject, batch, tissue, time, and condition metadata;
141- per-cell/per-feature QC definitions, doublet handling, and filtering history;
142 and
143- train/test splits at subject or independent experimental-unit level.
144
145Matrix Market `.mtx` commonly depends on separate barcode and feature files.
146The matrix alone is incomplete. Validate all sidecars and ordering together.
147
148## EDA rigor for genomic data
149
1501. Define the independent unit (read, molecule, cell, specimen, subject,
151 family, site, or cohort) before computing uncertainty.
1522. Preserve reference build, annotation release, pipeline versions, and command
153 parameters.
1543. Distinguish biological from technical replicates and preserve pairing.
1554. Audit missingness and QC failures by batch/site/group/time. Do not impute
156 genotypes, counts, or metadata automatically.
1575. Split by subject/family/specimen/time before normalization, feature
158 selection, batch correction, dimensionality reduction, or model fitting.
1596. Treat zero counts, absent features, no-calls, low coverage, and censored
160 assay values as distinct mechanisms until proven otherwise.
1617. Label post hoc genes/regions/pathways as exploratory and control the
162 appropriate hypothesis family in any confirmatory follow-up.
1638. Do not infer causality, clinical significance, or functional impact from
164 descriptive associations.
165
166## Pinned optional snapshot
167
168Biopython 1.88 was released on 2026-08-06 and requires Python 3.10+:
169
170```bash
171uv pip install "biopython==1.88"
172```
173
174Biopython also depends on NumPy for parts of its API; lock the complete
175environment for a study.
176
177## Authoritative sources
178
179Current parser APIs and format guidance reviewed 2026-09-30. Historical
180methodology citations are retained as source context.
181
182- Biopython 1.88, [Sequence Input/Output tutorial](https://biopython.org/docs/latest/Tutorial/chapter_seqio.html)
183 (explicit format selection and low-level FASTA/FASTQ parsers).
184- [Biopython PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/biopython/), version 1.88,
185 released 2026-08-06.
186- GA4GH, [hts-specs repository](https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs)
187 (SAM/BAM/CRAM, VCF/BCF, and related canonical specifications).
188- UCSC Genome Browser, [BED format FAQ](https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1).
189- Sequence Ontology, [GFF3 specification](https://github.com/The-Sequence-Ontology/Specifications/blob/master/gff3.md).
190- AnnData, [file format specification](https://anndata.readthedocs.io/en/stable/fileformat-prose.html).
191- NIST/SEMATECH, [Exploratory Data Analysis](https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/eda.htm).
192- scikit-learn, [data leakage guidance](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/common_pitfalls.html).
193- Benjamini and Hochberg (1995), [FDR control](https://academic.oup.com/jrsssb/article/57/1/289/7035855).

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