I am working with genomic data. Basically, it consists of many tuples of (start,end) on a line. I would like to convert these tuples of (start,end) to a string of bits where a bit is 1 if it is covered by any of the regions described by the (start,end) tuples and 0 if it is not. I then want to do set operations on multiple bit strings (AND, OR, NOT, etc.). Any suggestions on how to (1) set up the bit string and (2) operate on 1 or more of them? Java has a BitSet class that keeps this kind of thing pretty clean and high-level, but I haven't seen anything like it for python.
Thanks, Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
