gdsfmt

R Interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) files

Bioconductor version: 3.0

This package provides a high-level R interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) data files, which are portable across platforms and include hierarchical structure to store multiple scalable array-oriented data sets with metadata information. It is suited for large-scale datasets, especially for data which are much larger than the available random-access memory. The gdsfmt package offers the efficient operations specifically designed for integers with less than 8 bits, since a single genetic/genomic variant, like single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), usually occupies fewer bits than a byte. Data compression and decompression are also supported with relatively efficient random access. It is allowed to read a GDS file in parallel with multiple R processes supported by the package parallel.

Author: Xiuwen Zheng [aut, cre], Stephanie Gogarten [ctb], Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler [ctb] (for the included zlib sources), Yann Collet [ctb] (for the included LZ4 sources)

Maintainer: Xiuwen Zheng <zhengx at u.washington.edu>

Installation

To install this package, start R and enter:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("gdsfmt")

Documentation

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browseVignettes("gdsfmt")

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