Filtering Systems

Filtering is an important step in bioinformatics.

Filtering functions in packaged systems need to be both complete enough to handle even the most complex filtering criteria, as well as available enough to allow simple filtering with simple coding.

This page explains how Viola achieves these desired functions.

Completeness: ID based filtering system

In the main Viola object, including Vcf, Bedpe, and MultiBedpe, filtering-associated functions are eventually passed to the filter_by_id method. | filter_by_id method receives a list of ID (SV ID or global ID) and return filtered object. | Any table in the object that has a column with an SV ID or global ID will also be filtered.