Handling a BigWig file from Java+JNI : my notebook

In a previous post I've shown how to use a Java JNI interface to control a NCURSES panel from a java program.
I'll show here how to use java JNI to call the C methods developped by Jim Kent's team at UCSC to handle a BigWig file.

The Makefile for compiling the following sources is defined below:


Export the LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/current/directory

Download Jim Kent's sources from http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.zip. See the README file to compile jksrc/lib and jksrc/jkOwnLib.

The java source BigWig.java declares seven natives JNI methods. They will call the C methods for opening and closing the bigWig file, and getting the summaries in a given genomic range.


After compiling the java source, the following C header is generated with javah:


The C source implements the native methods defined in the java source. The code was inspired from ${JKENTSRC}/src/utils/bigWigSummary/bigWigSummary.c.


Download a bigwig file for a test: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeMapability/wgEncodeCrgMapabilityAlign100mer.bigWig.

The main method in BigWig.java contains.a test:

java BigWig wgEncodeCrgMapabilityAlign100mer.bigWig
0.394749239542279

And here is the original output of the utility 'bigWigSummary':

bigWigSummary wgEncodeCrgMapabilityAlign100mer.bigWig -type=mean chr1 1 1000000 1
0.394749

That's it,

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