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

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Rsamtools

Binary alignment (BAM), variant call (BCF), or tabix file import

Bioconductor version: 2.13

This package provides an interface to the 'samtools', 'bcftools', and 'tabix' utilities (see 'LICENCE') for manipulating SAM (Sequence Alignment / Map), binary variant call (BCF) and compressed indexed tab-delimited (tabix) files.

Author: Martin Morgan, Herv\'e Pag\`es, Valerie Obenchain

Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer at bioconductor.org>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("Rsamtools")):

Installation

To install this package, start R and enter:

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

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("Rsamtools")

 

PDF R Script An introduction to Rsamtools
PDF R Script Using samtools C libraries
PDF   Reference Manual
Text   NEWS
Text   LICENSE

Details

biocViews DataImport, HighThroughputSequencing, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.14.3
In Bioconductor since BioC 2.6 (R-2.11)
License Artistic-2.0 | file LICENSE
Depends methods, IRanges(>= 1.19.11), GenomicRanges(>= 1.13.35), XVector, Biostrings(>= 2.29.7)
Imports utils, BiocGenerics(>= 0.1.3), zlibbioc, bitops
Suggests ShortRead(>= 1.19.10), GenomicFeatures, TxDb.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3.ensGene, KEGG.db, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18.knownGene, RNAseqData.HNRNPC.bam.chr14, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, pasillaBamSubset, RUnit, BiocStyle
System Requirements
URL http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rsamtools.html
Depends On Me ArrayExpressHTS, BitSeq, casper, chimera, CNVrd2, deepSNV, easyRNASeq, EDASeq, exomeCopy, exomePeak, GGtools, ggtut, girafe, leeBamViews, MMDiff, oneChannelGUI, prebs, qrqc, r3Cseq, Rcade, ReQON, rfPred, RIPSeeker, rnaSeqMap, ShortRead, TBX20BamSubset, TEQC, VariantAnnotation
Imports Me AllelicImbalance, annmap, ArrayExpressHTS, biovizBase, CAGEr, CexoR, cn.mops, customProDB, deepSNV, DEXSeq, DNaseR, FunciSNP, ggbio, gmapR, Gviz, HTSeqGenie, LungCancerLines, MEDIPS, PICS, QuasR, R453Plus1Toolbox, Repitools, rtracklayer, TransView, VariantAnnotation, VariantTools
Suggests Me AnnotationHub, biomvRCNS, DiffBind, gage, GenomicFeatures, GenomicRanges, ind1KG, parathyroidSE, QuasR, R453Plus1Toolbox, RNAseqData.HNRNPC.bam.chr14, RnaSeqTutorial, seqbias, SigFuge, SplicingGraphs, Streamer

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Package Source Rsamtools_1.14.3.tar.gz
Windows Binary Rsamtools_1.14.3.zip (32- & 64-bit)
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