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Biostrings

Efficient manipulation of biological strings

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 2.81.9

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Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or sets of sequences.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.Biostrings

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("Biostrings")

Details

MaintainerHervé Pagès <hpages.on.github@gmail.com>
AuthorHervé Pagès [aut, cre], Patrick Aboyoun [aut], Robert Gentleman [aut], Saikat DebRoy [aut], Vince Carey [ctb], Nicolas Delhomme [ctb], Felix Ernst [ctb], Wolfgang Huber [ctb] ('matchprobes' vignette), Haleema Khan [ctb] (Converted 'matchprobes' vignette from Sweave to RMarkdown), Aidan Lakshman [ctb], Michael Lawrence [ctb], Kieran O'Neill [ctb], Valerie Obenchain [ctb], Marcel Ramos [ctb], Albert Vill [ctb], Jen Wokaty [ctb] (Converted 'matchprobes' vignette from Sweave to RMarkdown), Erik Wright [ctb]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/Biostrings/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAlignment, DataImport, DataRepresentation, Genetics, Infrastructure, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings/

Citation

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Hervé Pagès, Patrick Aboyoun, Robert Gentleman, Saikat DebRoy. Biostrings: Efficient manipulation of biological strings. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Biostrings, R package version 2.81.9, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings.

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), BiocGenerics (>= 0.37.0), S4Vectors (>= 0.27.12), IRanges (>= 2.47.5), XVector (>= 0.37.1), Seqinfo

Imports: methods, grDevices, stats, crayon

LinkingTo: S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector

Suggests: utils, graphics, pwalign, MultipleAlignment, BSgenome (>= 1.13.14), BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2 (>= 1.3.11), BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3 (>= 1.3.11), BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18, drosophila2probe, hgu95av2probe, hgu133aprobe, GenomicFeatures (>= 1.3.14), hgu95av2cdf, affy (>= 1.41.3), affydata (>= 1.11.5), RUnit, BiocStyle, knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), covr

Reverse dependencies

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Imports Me (305): AbSolution, ActiveDriverWGS, alakazam, AllelicImbalance, AnnotationBustR, AnnotationHubData, AntibodyForests, appreci8R, AssessORF, ATACseqQC, BamScale, BASiNET, BASiNETEntropy, BBCAnalyzer, BCRANK, bcSeq, BEAT, betterChromVAR, BgeeCall, BIGr, biomartr, biovizBase, branchpointer, bsseq, BUMHMM, BUSpaRse, CAGEr, CellBarcode, CGRphylo2, ChIPpeakAnno, ChIPseqR, ChIPsim, chromVAR, circRNAprofiler, CircSeqAlignTk, cleanUpdTSeq, CleanUpRNAseq, cliProfiler, ClustIRR, CNEr, CNVfilteR, cogeqc, compEpiTools, copyseparator, coRdon, crisprBase, crisprBowtie, crisprDesign, crispRdesignR, crisprScore, crisprShiny, CrispRVariants, crisprViz, CSESA, cubar, customProDB, dada2, dagLogo, DAMEfinder, Damsel, decompTumor2Sig, diffHic, DiPALM, DMRcaller, DNAmotif, DNAshapeR, DominoEffect, DOTSeq, doubletrouble, DspikeIn, DuplexDiscovereR, easyRNASeq, EDASeq, eDNAfuns, enhancerHomologSearch, ensembldb, ensembleTax, epiSeeker, EpiSemble, EpiTxDb, esATAC, eudysbiome, EuPathDB, EventPointer, factR, FastqCleaner, FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg18, FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19, FLAMES, fRagmentomics, fraq, G4SNVHunter, GA4GHclient, GB5mcPred, gcapc, gcrma, gDNAx, genBaRcode, GencoDymo2, geneClusterPattern, GeneRegionScan, GeneStructureTools, genomation, GenomAutomorphism, GenomicDistributions, GenomicFeatures, GenomicScores, GenomicSig, GenVisR, geomeTriD, ggbio, ggmsa, gmapR, gmoviz, GRaNIE, GUIDEseq, Gviz, gwascat, h5vc, heatmaps, HiCaptuRe, HiCDCPlus, HiCPotts, HiLDA, icetea, idpr, iimi, immReferent, InPAS, IntEREst, ipdDb, IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR, KEGGREST, kmeRtone, LACHESIS, longreadvqs, LymphoSeq, m6Aboost, MatrixRider, MDTS, MEDIPS, MEDME, memes, MesKit, metabinR, metaCluster, MetaScope, metaseqR2, methimpute, methodical, methylPipe, methylscaper, mia, microbiome, microbiomeDataSets, MicrobiotaProcess, microRNA, MiscMetabar, MitoHEAR, MMDiff2, mobileRNA, monaLisa, Motif2Site, motifbreakR, motifmatchr, MotifPeeker, motifStack, MSA2dist, MSnID, MSstatsLiP, MSstatsPTM, multicrispr, MungeSumstats, musicatk, MutationalPatterns, MutSeqR, NanoMethViz, NanoStringNCTools, ngsReports, nucleR, oligoClasses, OmaDB, OpEnCAMeO, OpEnCAST, OpEnHiMR, openPrimeR, ORFik, OTUbase, packFinder, PACVr, pd.081229.hg18.promoter.medip.hx1, pd.2006.07.18.hg18.refseq.promoter, pd.2006.07.18.mm8.refseq.promoter, pd.2006.10.31.rn34.refseq.promoter, pd.atdschip.tiling, pd.charm.hg18.example, pd.feinberg.hg18.me.hx1, pd.feinberg.mm8.me.hx1, pd.mirna.3.1, pdInfoBuilder, pepVet, PhyloProfile, PhyloProfileData, phyloseq, PICB, piglet, pipeFrame, planttfhunter, podkat, posDemux, postNet, primirTSS, proBAMr, ProbeDeveloper, procoil, profileplyr, ProteoDisco, PureCN, Pviz, qPLEXanalyzer, qsea, QsRutils, QuasR, r3Cseq, raer, ramwas, RBPEqBind, RBPSpecificity, RCAS, Rcpi, recoup, refseqR, regioneR, regutools, REMP, RESOLVE, revert, rfaRm, rhinotypeR, RiboCrypt, ribosomeProfilingQC, RNAmodR, Rqc, rtracklayer, sarks, SATS, scanMiR, scanMiRApp, scifer, scmeth, SCOPE, scoreInvHap, scoup, scPipe, scruff, SEMPLR, SeqArray, seqmagick, seqpac, seqPattern, SGSeq, signeR, SigsPack, sigvar, sitadela, SNPhood, SomaticSignatures, SparseSignatures, spiky, SpliceImpactR, SpliceWiz, SPLINTER, SQMtools, sscu, StructuralVariantAnnotation, surfaltr, SVAlignR, svaRetro, SynExtend, SynMut, syntenet, systemPipeRdata, TAPseq, TENET, TFBSTools, tidyGenR, TmCalculator, transite, tRNA, tRNAdbImport, tRNAscanImport, TVTB, txcutr, tximeta, Ularcirc, UMI4Cats, universalmotif, VariantAnnotation, VariantExperiment, VariantFiltering, VariantTools, vhcub, VIProDesign, wavClusteR, YAPSA

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Links To Me (10): DECIPHER, kebabs, MatrixRider, posDemux, pwalign, Rsamtools, ShortRead, triplex, VariantAnnotation, VariantFiltering