# Roaring.jl

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roaring-jl/733>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** package, announcement\
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roaring-jl/733 "2016-12-05T01:09:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ward9250](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ward9250/32/42768_2.png) [@Ward9250](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ward9250)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roaring-jl/733/1 "2016-12-05T01:09:24Z")

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Hi, I thought I’d put a small announcement out, I’ve decided to start a package called Roaring.jl to implement roaring bitmaps for julia [(https://github.com/Ward9250/Roaring.jl)](https://github.com/Ward9250/Roaring.jl). I’m doing this as part of my longer term postdoc project to bring population genomics infrastructure to Julia/BioJulia. Such bitmaps and other bitmaps like [WAH](https://github.com/BioJulia/WAHVectors.jl) will be used by said infrastructure.

Last week I started working on the array containers component.

Of course contributions and comments are always welcome.

Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![tshort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tshort/32/43_2.png) [@tshort](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tshort)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roaring-jl/733/2 "2016-12-05T02:31:39Z")

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Inreresting! Good luck. This could be useful in several areas, like indexing DataFrames.