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biocLite("VariantTools")

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VariantTools

Tools for Working with Genetic Variants

Bioconductor version: 2.14

Tools for detecting, filtering, calling, comparing and plotting variants.

Author: Michael Lawrence, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Robert Gentleman

Maintainer: Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>

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Installation

To install this package, start R and enter:

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

Documentation

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browseVignettes("VariantTools")

 

PDF R Script Introduction to VariantTools
PDF   Reference Manual
Text   NEWS

Details

biocViews GeneticVariability, Genetics, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.6.1
In Bioconductor since BioC 2.11 (R-2.15)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends IRanges(>= 1.19.34), GenomicRanges(>= 1.13.43), VariantAnnotation(>= 1.7.35), methods
Imports Rsamtools(>= 1.11.10), BiocGenerics, Biostrings, parallel, gmapR(>= 1.5.15), GenomicFeatures, Matrix, rtracklayer, BiocParallel, GenomeInfoDb
Suggests RUnit, LungCancerLines(>= 0.0.6), RBGL, graph
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Imports Me HTSeqGenie
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