Rsamtools

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

Bioconductor version: 2.9

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

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

To install this package, start R and enter:

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

To cite this package in a publication, start R and enter:

    citation("Rsamtools")

Documentation

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

Details

biocViews	DataImport, Sequencing, HighThroughputSequencing
Depends	methods, IRanges(>= 1.11.34), GenomicRanges(>= 1.5.49), Biostrings(>= 2.21.12)
Imports	methods, utils, IRanges, GenomicRanges, Biostrings, zlibbioc, rtracklayer, bitops
Suggests	ShortRead(>= 1.11.30), GenomicFeatures, RUnit, KEGG.db
System Requirements
License	Artistic-2.0 + file LICENSE
URL	http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rsamtools.html
Depends On Me	ArrayExpressHTS, EDASeq, exomeCopy, girafe, ind1KG, leeBamViews, oneChannelGUI, qrqc, ReQON, rnaSeqMap, ShortRead, TEQC, VariantAnnotation
Imports Me	ArrayExpressHTS, cn.mops, ggbio, GGtools, R453Plus1Toolbox, ShortRead
Suggests Me	biovizBase, GenomicRanges, R453Plus1Toolbox, rtracklayer, Streamer
Version	1.6.3
Since	Bioconductor 2.6 (R-2.11)

Package Downloads

Package Source	Rsamtools_1.6.3.tar.gz
Windows Binary	Rsamtools_1.6.3.zip (32- & 64-bit)
MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) binary	Rsamtools_1.6.3.tgz
Package Downloads Report	Download Stats

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