NAME

bioSyntax - Syntax Highlighting for Computational Biology.

DESCRIPTION

Syntax highlighting for computational biology to bring you intuitively close to your data.
BioSyntax provides plugins for gedit, less, sublime and vim.
BioSyntax supports .sam, .flagstat, .vcf, .fasta, .fastq, .faidx, .clustal, .pdb, .gtf, .bed files & more.

Debian-based OS

Plugins are not enabled per default.

gedit

Go into the gedit preferences:

Edit > Preferences > Font & Color > bioSyntax

less

First, check your shell:

echo $SHELL

# Outputs:
' $SHELL $RCFILE '
# /bin/zsh --> ~/.zshrc
# /bin/sh --> ~/.shrc
# /bin/bash --> ~/.bashrc

Then, append the rc_append.txt file to your corresponding shell configuration file (rc file).

cat /usr/share/doc/biosyntax-less/rc_append.txt >> ~/.zshrc

vim

To enable it for your user account just execute:

vim-addons install biosyntax

Similarly, to enable it for all users of this system just execute (as root):

vim-addons -w install biosyntax

vim-addons is provided by the vim-addon-manager package, have a look at its manpage for more information.

SEE ALSO

https://biosyntax.org/