# oxbow <a href="https://github.com/abdenlab/oxbow"><img align="right" src="./logo.svg" height="38"></img></a>
Read specialized bioinformatic file formats as data frames in R, Python, and more.
File formats create a lot of friction for computational biologists.
Oxbow is a data unification layer that aims to improve data accessibility and
ease of high-performance analytics.
Data I/O is handled in Rust with features exposed to Python and R via Apache Arrow.
To learn more, read our introductory [blog post](TODO).
## Contributing
Want to contribute? [Join us](https://oxbow.zulipchat.com)!
## Development
The **oxbow** project is split into separate [Rust](./oxbow), [Python](./py-oxbow), and [R](./r-oxbow) packages.
You can download sample data by [following these instructions](./data/README.md).