List Comparator (Streamlit App)

A lightweight and interactive Streamlit application for comparing two lists using set operations.

Features

• Flexible delimiter handling (newline, comma, semicolon, whitespace, custom)
• Case-sensitive or case-insensitive comparison
• Optional whitespace trimming
• Optional deduplication
• Optional alphabetical sorting
• Summary metrics
• Jaccard similarity
• Overlap coefficient
• Interactive region explorer
• Download results as TXT or CSV

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Installation

Clone the repository or download the app script.

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Run the App

streamlit run app.py

Replace app.py with your script filename if different.

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Similarity Metrics

Jaccard Similarity
Intersection ÷ Union

Overlap Coefficient
Intersection ÷ Smaller set size

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Example Use Cases

• Comparing gene lists
• Comparing accession IDs
• Comparing ontology term sets
• General text-based list comparison

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License

MIT License