# \[ANN\] PairwiseMappingFormat.jl

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**Category:** Biology, Health, and Medicine\
**Created:** [October 24, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-pairwisemappingformat-jl/121714 "2024-10-24T17:45:33Z")\
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The newest BioJulia package has just been merged to the General Registry: PairwiseMappingFormat.jl.

This package provide a parser for PAF (Pairwise mApping Format) files, which are used by some aligners such as minimap2. While PAF is a simple tab-delimited format, that can usually be parsed just fine with a naive approach, a dedicated parser in a package brings performance improvements, better tests, and increased safety.

PairwiseMappingFormat.jl requires Julia 1.11.

Happy hacking!