#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright 2010-2013 by Peter Cock. # All rights reserved. # This code is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by its # license. Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included # as part of this package. r"""Read and write BGZF compressed files (the GZIP variant used in BAM). The SAM/BAM file format (Sequence Alignment/Map) comes in a plain text format (SAM), and a compressed binary format (BAM). The latter uses a modified form of gzip compression called BGZF (Blocked GNU Zip Format), which can be applied to any file format to provide compression with efficient random access. BGZF is described together with the SAM/BAM file format at http://samtools.sourceforge.net/SAM1.pdf Please read the text below about 'virtual offsets' before using BGZF files for random access. Aim of this module ------------------ The Python gzip library can be used to read BGZF files, since for decompression they are just (specialised) gzip files. What this module aims to facilitate is random access to BGZF files (using the 'virtual offset' idea), and writing BGZF files (which means using suitably sized gzip blocks and writing the extra 'BC' field in the gzip headers). As in the gzip library, the zlib library is used internally. In addition to being required for random access to and writing of BAM files, the BGZF format can also be used on other sequential data (in the sense of one record after another), such as most of the sequence data formats supported in Bio.SeqIO (like FASTA, FASTQ, GenBank, etc) or large MAF alignments. The Bio.SeqIO indexing functions use this module to support BGZF files. Technical Introduction to BGZF ------------------------------ The gzip file format allows multiple compressed blocks, each of which could be a stand alone gzip file. As an interesting bonus, this means you can use Unix "cat" to combined to gzip files into one by concatenating them. Also, each block can have one of several compression levels (including uncompressed, which actually takes up a little bit more space due to the gzip header). What the BAM designers realised was that while random access to data stored in traditional gzip files was slow, breaking the file into gzip blocks would allow fast random access to each block. To access a particular piece of the decompressed data, you just need to know which block it starts in (the offset of the gzip block start), and how far into the (decompressed) contents of the block you need to read. One problem with this is finding the gzip block sizes efficiently. You can do it with a standard gzip file, but it requires every block to be decompressed -- and that would be rather slow. Additionally typical gzip files may use very large blocks. All that differs in BGZF is that compressed size of each gzip block is limited to 2^16 bytes, and an extra 'BC' field in the gzip header records this size. Traditional decompression tools can ignore this, and unzip the file just like any other gzip file. The point of this is you can look at the first BGZF block, find out how big it is from this 'BC' header, and thus seek immediately to the second block, and so on. The BAM indexing scheme records read positions using a 64 bit 'virtual offset', comprising coffset<<16|uoffset, where coffset is the file offset of the BGZF block containing the start of the read (unsigned integer using up to 64-16 = 48 bits), and uoffset is the offset within the (decompressed) block (unsigned 16 bit integer). This limits you to BAM files where the last block starts by 2^48 bytes, or 256 petabytes, and the decompressed size of each block is at most 2^16 bytes, or 64kb. Note that this matches the BGZF 'BC' field size which limits the compressed size of each block to 2^16 bytes, allowing for BAM files to use BGZF with no gzip compression (useful for intermediate files in memory to reduced CPU load). Warning about namespaces ------------------------ It is considered a bad idea to use "from XXX import *" in Python, because it pollutes the namespace. This is a real issue with Bio.bgzf (and the standard Python library gzip) because they contain a function called open i.e. Suppose you do this: >>> from Bio.bgzf import * >>> print(open.__module__) Bio.bgzf Or, >>> from gzip import * >>> print(open.__module__) gzip Notice that the open function has been replaced. You can "fix" this if you need to by importing the built-in open function: >>> try: ... from __builtin__ import open # Python 2 ... except ImportError: ... from builtins import open # Python 3 ... However, what we recommend instead is to use the explicit namespace, e.g. >>> from Bio import bgzf >>> print(bgzf.open.__module__) Bio.bgzf Example ------- This is an ordinary GenBank file compressed using BGZF, so it can be decompressed using gzip, >>> import gzip >>> handle = gzip.open("GenBank/NC_000932.gb.bgz", "r") >>> assert 0 == handle.tell() >>> line = handle.readline() >>> assert 80 == handle.tell() >>> line = handle.readline() >>> assert 143 == handle.tell() >>> data = handle.read(70000) >>> assert 70143 == handle.tell() >>> handle.close() We can also access the file using the BGZF reader - but pay attention to the file offsets which will be explained below: >>> handle = BgzfReader("GenBank/NC_000932.gb.bgz", "r") >>> assert 0 == handle.tell() >>> print(handle.readline().rstrip()) LOCUS NC_000932 154478 bp DNA circular PLN 15-APR-2009 >>> assert 80 == handle.tell() >>> print(handle.readline().rstrip()) DEFINITION Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast, complete genome. >>> assert 143 == handle.tell() >>> data = handle.read(70000) >>> assert 987828735 == handle.tell() >>> print(handle.readline().rstrip()) f="GeneID:844718" >>> print(handle.readline().rstrip()) CDS complement(join(84337..84771,85454..85843)) >>> offset = handle.seek(make_virtual_offset(55074, 126)) >>> print(handle.readline().rstrip()) 68521 tatgtcattc gaaattgtat aaagacaact cctatttaat agagctattt gtgcaagtat >>> handle.close() Notice the handle's offset looks different as a BGZF file. This brings us to the key point about BGZF, which is the block structure: >>> handle = open("GenBank/NC_000932.gb.bgz", "rb") >>> for values in BgzfBlocks(handle): ... print("Raw start %i, raw length %i; data start %i, data length %i" % values) Raw start 0, raw length 15073; data start 0, data length 65536 Raw start 15073, raw length 17857; data start 65536, data length 65536 Raw start 32930, raw length 22144; data start 131072, data length 65536 Raw start 55074, raw length 22230; data start 196608, data length 65536 Raw start 77304, raw length 14939; data start 262144, data length 43478 Raw start 92243, raw length 28; data start 305622, data length 0 >>> handle.close() In this example the first three blocks are 'full' and hold 65536 bytes of uncompressed data. The fourth block isn't full and holds 43478 bytes. Finally there is a special empty fifth block which takes 28 bytes on disk and serves as an 'end of file' (EOF) marker. If this is missing, it is possible your BGZF file is incomplete. By reading ahead 70,000 bytes we moved into the second BGZF block, and at that point the BGZF virtual offsets start to look different to a simple offset into the decompressed data as exposed by the gzip library. As an example, consider seeking to the decompressed position 196734. Since 196734 = 65536 + 65536 + 65536 + 126 = 65536*3 + 126, this is equivalent to jumping the first three blocks (which in this specific example are all size 65536 after decompression - which does not always hold) and starting at byte 126 of the fourth block (after decompression). For BGZF, we need to know the fourth block's offset of 55074 and the offset within the block of 126 to get the BGZF virtual offset. >>> print(55074 << 16 | 126) 3609329790 >>> print(bgzf.make_virtual_offset(55074, 126)) 3609329790 Thus for this BGZF file, decompressed position 196734 corresponds to the virtual offset 3609329790. However, another BGZF file with different contents would have compressed more or less efficiently, so the compressed blocks would be different sizes. What this means is the mapping between the uncompressed offset and the compressed virtual offset depends on the BGZF file you are using. If you are accessing a BGZF file via this module, just use the handle.tell() method to note the virtual offset of a position you may later want to return to using handle.seek(). The catch with BGZF virtual offsets is while they can be compared (which offset comes first in the file), you cannot safely subtract them to get the size of the data between them, nor add/subtract a relative offset. Of course you can parse this file with Bio.SeqIO using BgzfReader, although there isn't any benefit over using gzip.open(...), unless you want to index BGZF compressed sequence files: >>> from Bio import SeqIO >>> handle = BgzfReader("GenBank/NC_000932.gb.bgz") >>> record = SeqIO.read(handle, "genbank") >>> handle.close() >>> print(record.id) NC_000932.1 """ from __future__ import print_function import sys # to detect when under Python 2 import zlib import struct from Bio._py3k import _as_bytes, _as_string from Bio._py3k import open as _open #For Python 2 can just use: _bgzf_magic = '\x1f\x8b\x08\x04' #but need to use bytes on Python 3 _bgzf_magic = b"\x1f\x8b\x08\x04" _bgzf_header = b"\x1f\x8b\x08\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\x06\x00\x42\x43\x02\x00" _bgzf_eof = b"\x1f\x8b\x08\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\x06\x00BC\x02\x00\x1b\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" _bytes_BC = b"BC" def open(filename, mode="rb"): """Open a BGZF file for reading, writing or appending.""" if "r" in mode.lower(): return BgzfReader(filename, mode) elif "w" in mode.lower() or "a" in mode.lower(): return BgzfWriter(filename, mode) else: raise ValueError("Bad mode %r" % mode) def make_virtual_offset(block_start_offset, within_block_offset): """Compute a BGZF virtual offset from block start and within block offsets. The BAM indexing scheme records read positions using a 64 bit 'virtual offset', comprising in C terms: block_start_offset<<16 | within_block_offset Here block_start_offset is the file offset of the BGZF block start (unsigned integer using up to 64-16 = 48 bits), and within_block_offset within the (decompressed) block (unsigned 16 bit integer). >>> make_virtual_offset(0, 0) 0 >>> make_virtual_offset(0, 1) 1 >>> make_virtual_offset(0, 2**16 - 1) 65535 >>> make_virtual_offset(0, 2**16) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Require 0 <= within_block_offset < 2**16, got 65536 >>> 65536 == make_virtual_offset(1, 0) True >>> 65537 == make_virtual_offset(1, 1) True >>> 131071 == make_virtual_offset(1, 2**16 - 1) True >>> 6553600000 == make_virtual_offset(100000, 0) True >>> 6553600001 == make_virtual_offset(100000, 1) True >>> 6553600010 == make_virtual_offset(100000, 10) True >>> make_virtual_offset(2**48, 0) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Require 0 <= block_start_offset < 2**48, got 281474976710656 """ if within_block_offset < 0 or within_block_offset >= 65536: raise ValueError("Require 0 <= within_block_offset < 2**16, got %i" % within_block_offset) if block_start_offset < 0 or block_start_offset >= 281474976710656: raise ValueError("Require 0 <= block_start_offset < 2**48, got %i" % block_start_offset) return (block_start_offset<<16) | within_block_offset def split_virtual_offset(virtual_offset): """Divides a 64-bit BGZF virtual offset into block start & within block offsets. >>> (100000, 0) == split_virtual_offset(6553600000) True >>> (100000, 10) == split_virtual_offset(6553600010) True """ start = virtual_offset>>16 return start, virtual_offset ^ (start<<16) def BgzfBlocks(handle): """Low level debugging function to inspect BGZF blocks. Expects a BGZF compressed file opened in binary read mode using the builtin open function. Do not use a handle from this bgzf module or the gzip module's open function which will decompress the file. Returns the block start offset (see virtual offsets), the block length (add these for the start of the next block), and the decompressed length of the blocks contents (limited to 65536 in BGZF), as an iterator - one tuple per BGZF block. >>> try: ... from __builtin__ import open # Python 2 ... except ImportError: ... from builtins import open # Python 3 ... >>> handle = open("SamBam/ex1.bam", "rb") >>> for values in BgzfBlocks(handle): ... print("Raw start %i, raw length %i; data start %i, data length %i" % values) Raw start 0, raw length 18239; data start 0, data length 65536 Raw start 18239, raw length 18223; data start 65536, data length 65536 Raw start 36462, raw length 18017; data start 131072, data length 65536 Raw start 54479, raw length 17342; data start 196608, data length 65536 Raw start 71821, raw length 17715; data start 262144, data length 65536 Raw start 89536, raw length 17728; data start 327680, data length 65536 Raw start 107264, raw length 17292; data start 393216, data length 63398 Raw start 124556, raw length 28; data start 456614, data length 0 >>> handle.close() Indirectly we can tell this file came from an old version of samtools because all the blocks (except the final one and the dummy empty EOF marker block) are 65536 bytes. Later versions avoid splitting a read between two blocks, and give the header its own block (useful to speed up replacing the header). You can see this in ex1_refresh.bam created using samtools 0.1.18: samtools view -b ex1.bam > ex1_refresh.bam >>> handle = open("SamBam/ex1_refresh.bam", "rb") >>> for values in BgzfBlocks(handle): ... print("Raw start %i, raw length %i; data start %i, data length %i" % values) Raw start 0, raw length 53; data start 0, data length 38 Raw start 53, raw length 18195; data start 38, data length 65434 Raw start 18248, raw length 18190; data start 65472, data length 65409 Raw start 36438, raw length 18004; data start 130881, data length 65483 Raw start 54442, raw length 17353; data start 196364, data length 65519 Raw start 71795, raw length 17708; data start 261883, data length 65411 Raw start 89503, raw length 17709; data start 327294, data length 65466 Raw start 107212, raw length 17390; data start 392760, data length 63854 Raw start 124602, raw length 28; data start 456614, data length 0 >>> handle.close() The above example has no embedded SAM header (thus the first block is very small at just 38 bytes of decompressed data), while the next example does (a larger block of 103 bytes). Notice that the rest of the blocks show the same sizes (they contain the same read data): >>> handle = open("SamBam/ex1_header.bam", "rb") >>> for values in BgzfBlocks(handle): ... print("Raw start %i, raw length %i; data start %i, data length %i" % values) Raw start 0, raw length 104; data start 0, data length 103 Raw start 104, raw length 18195; data start 103, data length 65434 Raw start 18299, raw length 18190; data start 65537, data length 65409 Raw start 36489, raw length 18004; data start 130946, data length 65483 Raw start 54493, raw length 17353; data start 196429, data length 65519 Raw start 71846, raw length 17708; data start 261948, data length 65411 Raw start 89554, raw length 17709; data start 327359, data length 65466 Raw start 107263, raw length 17390; data start 392825, data length 63854 Raw start 124653, raw length 28; data start 456679, data length 0 >>> handle.close() """ data_start = 0 while True: start_offset = handle.tell() #This may raise StopIteration which is perfect here block_length, data = _load_bgzf_block(handle) data_len = len(data) yield start_offset, block_length, data_start, data_len data_start += data_len def _load_bgzf_block(handle, text_mode=False): """Internal function to load the next BGZF function (PRIVATE).""" magic = handle.read(4) if not magic: #End of file raise StopIteration if magic != _bgzf_magic: raise ValueError(r"A BGZF (e.g. a BAM file) block should start with " r"%r, not %r; handle.tell() now says %r" % (_bgzf_magic, magic, handle.tell())) gzip_mod_time, gzip_extra_flags, gzip_os, extra_len = \ struct.unpack(">> try: ... from __builtin__ import open # Python 2 ... except ImportError: ... from builtins import open # Python 3 ... >>> handle = open("SamBam/ex1.bam", "rb") >>> for values in BgzfBlocks(handle): ... print("Raw start %i, raw length %i; data start %i, data length %i" % values) Raw start 0, raw length 18239; data start 0, data length 65536 Raw start 18239, raw length 18223; data start 65536, data length 65536 Raw start 36462, raw length 18017; data start 131072, data length 65536 Raw start 54479, raw length 17342; data start 196608, data length 65536 Raw start 71821, raw length 17715; data start 262144, data length 65536 Raw start 89536, raw length 17728; data start 327680, data length 65536 Raw start 107264, raw length 17292; data start 393216, data length 63398 Raw start 124556, raw length 28; data start 456614, data length 0 >>> handle.close() Now let's see how to use this block information to jump to specific parts of the decompressed BAM file: >>> handle = BgzfReader("SamBam/ex1.bam", "rb") >>> assert 0 == handle.tell() >>> magic = handle.read(4) >>> assert 4 == handle.tell() So far nothing so strange, we got the magic marker used at the start of a decompressed BAM file, and the handle position makes sense. Now however, let's jump to the end of this block and 4 bytes into the next block by reading 65536 bytes, >>> data = handle.read(65536) >>> len(data) 65536 >>> assert 1195311108 == handle.tell() Expecting 4 + 65536 = 65540 were you? Well this is a BGZF 64-bit virtual offset, which means: >>> split_virtual_offset(1195311108) (18239, 4) You should spot 18239 as the start of the second BGZF block, while the 4 is the offset into this block. See also make_virtual_offset, >>> make_virtual_offset(18239, 4) 1195311108 Let's jump back to almost the start of the file, >>> make_virtual_offset(0, 2) 2 >>> handle.seek(2) 2 >>> handle.close() Note that you can use the max_cache argument to limit the number of BGZF blocks cached in memory. The default is 100, and since each block can be up to 64kb, the default cache could take up to 6MB of RAM. The cache is not important for reading through the file in one pass, but is important for improving performance of random access. """ def __init__(self, filename=None, mode="r", fileobj=None, max_cache=100): #TODO - Assuming we can seek, check for 28 bytes EOF empty block #and if missing warn about possible truncation (as in samtools)? if max_cache < 1: raise ValueError("Use max_cache with a minimum of 1") #Must open the BGZF file in binary mode, but we may want to #treat the contents as either text or binary (unicode or #bytes under Python 3) if fileobj: assert filename is None handle = fileobj assert "b" in handle.mode.lower() else: if "w" in mode.lower() \ or "a" in mode.lower(): raise ValueError("Must use read mode (default), not write or append mode") handle = _open(filename, "rb") self._text = "b" not in mode.lower() if self._text: self._newline = "\n" else: self._newline = b"\n" self._handle = handle self.max_cache = max_cache self._buffers = {} self._block_start_offset = None self._block_raw_length = None self._load_block(handle.tell()) def _load_block(self, start_offset=None): if start_offset is None: #If the file is being read sequentially, then _handle.tell() #should be pointing at the start of the next block. #However, if seek has been used, we can't assume that. start_offset = self._block_start_offset + self._block_raw_length if start_offset == self._block_start_offset: self._within_block_offset = 0 return elif start_offset in self._buffers: #Already in cache self._buffer, self._block_raw_length = self._buffers[start_offset] self._within_block_offset = 0 self._block_start_offset = start_offset return #Must hit the disk... first check cache limits, while len(self._buffers) >= self.max_cache: #TODO - Implemente LRU cache removal? self._buffers.popitem() #Now load the block handle = self._handle if start_offset is not None: handle.seek(start_offset) self._block_start_offset = handle.tell() try: block_size, self._buffer = _load_bgzf_block(handle, self._text) except StopIteration: #EOF block_size = 0 if self._text: self._buffer = "" else: self._buffer = b"" self._within_block_offset = 0 self._block_raw_length = block_size #Finally save the block in our cache, self._buffers[self._block_start_offset] = self._buffer, block_size def tell(self): """Returns a 64-bit unsigned BGZF virtual offset.""" if 0 < self._within_block_offset == len(self._buffer): #Special case where we're right at the end of a (non empty) block. #For non-maximal blocks could give two possible virtual offsets, #but for a maximal block can't use 65536 as the within block #offset. Therefore for consistency, use the next block and a #within block offset of zero. return (self._block_start_offset + self._block_raw_length) << 16 else: #return make_virtual_offset(self._block_start_offset, # self._within_block_offset) #TODO - Include bounds checking as in make_virtual_offset? return (self._block_start_offset<<16) | self._within_block_offset def seek(self, virtual_offset): """Seek to a 64-bit unsigned BGZF virtual offset.""" #Do this inline to avoid a function call, #start_offset, within_block = split_virtual_offset(virtual_offset) start_offset = virtual_offset>>16 within_block = virtual_offset ^ (start_offset<<16) if start_offset != self._block_start_offset: #Don't need to load the block if already there #(this avoids a function call since _load_block would do nothing) self._load_block(start_offset) assert start_offset == self._block_start_offset if within_block > len(self._buffer) \ and not (within_block == 0 and len(self._buffer)==0): raise ValueError("Within offset %i but block size only %i" % (within_block, len(self._buffer))) self._within_block_offset = within_block #assert virtual_offset == self.tell(), \ # "Did seek to %i (%i, %i), but tell says %i (%i, %i)" \ # % (virtual_offset, start_offset, within_block, # self.tell(), self._block_start_offset, self._within_block_offset) return virtual_offset def read(self, size=-1): if size < 0: raise NotImplementedError("Don't be greedy, that could be massive!") elif size == 0: if self._text: return "" else: return b"" elif self._within_block_offset + size <= len(self._buffer): #This may leave us right at the end of a block #(lazy loading, don't load the next block unless we have too) data = self._buffer[self._within_block_offset:self._within_block_offset + size] self._within_block_offset += size assert data # Must be at least 1 byte return data else: data = self._buffer[self._within_block_offset:] size -= len(data) self._load_block() # will reset offsets #TODO - Test with corner case of an empty block followed by #a non-empty block if not self._buffer: return data # EOF elif size: #TODO - Avoid recursion return data + self.read(size) else: #Only needed the end of the last block return data def readline(self): i = self._buffer.find(self._newline, self._within_block_offset) #Three cases to consider, if i==-1: #No newline, need to read in more data data = self._buffer[self._within_block_offset:] self._load_block() # will reset offsets if not self._buffer: return data # EOF else: #TODO - Avoid recursion return data + self.readline() elif i + 1 == len(self._buffer): #Found new line, but right at end of block (SPECIAL) data = self._buffer[self._within_block_offset:] #Must now load the next block to ensure tell() works self._load_block() # will reset offsets assert data return data else: #Found new line, not at end of block (easy case, no IO) data = self._buffer[self._within_block_offset:i+1] self._within_block_offset = i + 1 #assert data.endswith(self._newline) return data def __next__(self): line = self.readline() if not line: raise StopIteration return line if sys.version_info[0] < 3: def next(self): """Python 2 style alias for Python 3 style __next__ method.""" return self.__next__() def __iter__(self): return self def close(self): self._handle.close() self._buffer = None self._block_start_offset = None self._buffers = None def seekable(self): return True def isatty(self): return False def fileno(self): return self._handle.fileno() def __enter__(self): return self def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): self.close() class BgzfWriter(object): def __init__(self, filename=None, mode="w", fileobj=None, compresslevel=6): if fileobj: assert filename is None handle = fileobj else: if "w" not in mode.lower() \ and "a" not in mode.lower(): raise ValueError("Must use write or append mode, not %r" % mode) if "a" in mode.lower(): handle = _open(filename, "ab") else: handle = _open(filename, "wb") self._text = "b" not in mode.lower() self._handle = handle self._buffer = b"" self.compresslevel = compresslevel def _write_block(self, block): #print("Saving %i bytes" % len(block)) start_offset = self._handle.tell() assert len(block) <= 65536 #Giving a negative window bits means no gzip/zlib headers, -15 used in samtools c = zlib.compressobj(self.compresslevel, zlib.DEFLATED, -15, zlib.DEF_MEM_LEVEL, 0) compressed = c.compress(block) + c.flush() del c assert len(compressed) < 65536, "TODO - Didn't compress enough, try less data in this block" crc = zlib.crc32(block) #Should cope with a mix of Python platforms... if crc < 0: crc = struct.pack("= 65536: self._write_block(self._buffer[:65536]) self._buffer = self._buffer[65536:] def flush(self): while len(self._buffer) >= 65536: self._write_block(self._buffer[:65535]) self._buffer = self._buffer[65535:] self._write_block(self._buffer) self._buffer = b"" self._handle.flush() def close(self): """Flush data, write 28 bytes empty BGZF EOF marker, and close the BGZF file.""" if self._buffer: self.flush() #samtools will look for a magic EOF marker, just a 28 byte empty BGZF block, #and if it is missing warns the BAM file may be truncated. In addition to #samtools writing this block, so too does bgzip - so we should too. self._handle.write(_bgzf_eof) self._handle.flush() self._handle.close() def tell(self): """Returns a BGZF 64-bit virtual offset.""" return make_virtual_offset(self._handle.tell(), len(self._buffer)) def seekable(self): #Not seekable, but we do support tell... return False def isatty(self): return False def fileno(self): return self._handle.fileno() def __enter__(self): return self def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): self.close() if __name__ == "__main__": import sys if len(sys.argv) > 1: print("Call this with no arguments and pipe uncompressed data in on stdin") print("and it will produce BGZF compressed data on stdout. e.g.") print("") print("./bgzf.py < example.fastq > example.fastq.bgz") print("") print("The extension convention of *.bgz is to distinugish these from *.gz") print("used for standard gzipped files without the block structure of BGZF.") print("You can use the standard gunzip command to decompress BGZF files,") print("if it complains about the extension try something like this:") print("") print("cat example.fastq.bgz | gunzip > example.fastq") print("") print("See also the tool bgzip that comes with samtools") sys.exit(0) sys.stderr.write("Producing BGZF output from stdin...\n") w = BgzfWriter(fileobj=sys.stdout) while True: data = sys.stdin.read(65536) w.write(data) if not data: break #Doing close with write an empty BGZF block as EOF marker: w.close() sys.stderr.write("BGZF data produced\n")