Plans to add an API

[gtonkinhill]

Hi, thanks very much for building such a useful program!

I was wondering if you had plans to add a c or python API similar to minimap2?

[lh3]

The C APIs are mostly ready but need documentations and an example. I have just added those in 7153f15. These APIs are close to minimap2's. Nonetheless, because miniprot CIGAR is more complex. You will probably feel more difficult to extract information. Ideally, it would be good to add new APIs to process CIGAR (e.g. generating a cs string with all the mismatches and gaps), but this will take time – they are not there yet. For now you can have a look at format.c. Implementing Python APIs will take more efforts. I will see if more users are interested in this.

[gtonkinhill]

That's great, thank you very much! I'll take a look at the C APIs.