Utilities Module

The utilities module provides utility functions used by other modules.

Key Functions

create_directories

Creates the necessary directories for the annotation process.

create_tmpdir

Creates a temporary directory for the annotation process.

checkfile

Checks if a file exists and is not empty.

find_files

Finds files matching a pattern in a directory.

merge_coordinates

Merges overlapping coordinates.

system_info

Gets information about the system.

readBlocks

Reads blocks of text from a source.