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FlowIO reads and writes Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) files, exposing metadata, channels, and NumPy event arrays while allowing CSV/DataFrame conversion, making it ideal for cytometry pipelines and backend preprocessing services.

TileDB-VCF lets you ingest, store, query, and export large genomic VCF/BCF datasets using TileDB’s sparse arrays, supporting incremental sample growth, parallel regions queries, and cloud-local interoperability for population genomics workflows.

Dask is a powerful Python library designed for scalable, parallel, and distributed computing. It enables workflows for datasets that exceed available RAM or require processing across multiple machines. Users can scale familiar pandas and NumPy operations (DataFrames, Arrays) and process unstructured data (Bags) efficiently, making it ideal for large-scale ETL, analytics, and distributed machine learning tasks.

FlowIO is a specialized, low-level library designed for reading, inspecting, and writing Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) files (versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1). It allows users to extract event data as NumPy arrays, inspect detailed metadata (HEADER, TEXT, ANALYSIS), and handle multi-dataset structures. It is crucial for data preparation, format conversion, and foundational metadata management in bioinformatics pipelines, but does not perform complex analysis like gating or compensation.

Zarr is a robust Python library designed for efficiently storing and managing large N-dimensional arrays. It provides features like chunking, compression, and parallel I/O, making it perfectly suited for cloud-native scientific computing pipelines. It ensures seamless integration with major scientific stacks including NumPy, Dask, and Xarray, while supporting remote storage backends like S3 and GCS.