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BSgenome

This is the released version of BSgenome; for the devel version, see BSgenome.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.14, 2.13, 2.12, 2.11, 2.10, 2.9, 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5

Software infrastructure for efficient representation of full genomes and their SNPs


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Infrastructure shared by all the Biostrings-based genome data packages.

Author: Hervé Pagès [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Hervé Pagès <hpages.on.github at gmail.com>

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

Hervé Pagès. BSgenome: Software infrastructure for efficient representation of full genomes and their SNPs. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.BSgenome, R package version 1.80.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/BSgenome.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

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

BiocManager::install("BSgenome")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

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

browseVignettes("BSgenome")
How to forge a BSgenome data package PDF
Efficient genome searching with Biostrings and the BSgenome data packages PDF R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Annotation, DataRepresentation, Genetics, Infrastructure, SNP, SequenceMatching, Software
Version1.80.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 1.9 (R-2.4) (20 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 2.8.0), methods, BiocGenerics (>= 0.13.8), S4Vectors (>= 0.47.6), IRanges (>= 2.13.16), Seqinfo, GenomicRanges (>= 1.61.1), Biostrings (>= 2.77.2), BiocIO, rtracklayer (>= 1.69.1)
Imports utils, stats, matrixStats, XVector, Rsamtools (>= 2.25.1)
System Requirements
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/BSgenome
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/BSgenome/issues
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Suggests BiocManager, GenomeInfoDb, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.masked, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer1, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.GRCh38, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene, TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.knownGene, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, hgu95av2probe, RUnit, BSgenomeForge
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me annotation, bambu, BSgenome.Alyrata.JGI.v1, BSgenome.Amellifera.BeeBase.assembly4, BSgenome.Amellifera.NCBI.AmelHAv3.1, BSgenome.Amellifera.UCSC.apiMel2, BSgenome.Amellifera.UCSC.apiMel2.masked, BSgenome.Aofficinalis.NCBI.V1, BSgenome.Athaliana.TAIR.04232008, BSgenome.Athaliana.TAIR.TAIR9, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau3, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau3.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau4, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau4.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau6, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau6.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau8, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau9, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau9.masked, BSgenome.Carietinum.NCBI.v1, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce10, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce11, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce6, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam2, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam2.masked, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam3, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam3.masked, BSgenome.Cjacchus.UCSC.calJac3, BSgenome.Cjacchus.UCSC.calJac4, BSgenome.CneoformansVarGrubiiKN99.NCBI.ASM221672v1, BSgenome.Creinhardtii.JGI.v5.6, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm2, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm2.masked, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3.masked, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm6, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer10, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer11, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer5, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer5.masked, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer6, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer6.masked, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer7, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer7.masked, BSgenome.Dvirilis.Ensembl.dvircaf1, BSgenome.Ecoli.NCBI.20080805, BSgenome.Gaculeatus.UCSC.gasAcu1, BSgenome.Gaculeatus.UCSC.gasAcu1.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal3, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal3.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal5, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal6, BSgenome.Gmax.NCBI.Gmv40, BSgenome.Hsapiens.1000genomes.hs37d5, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.GRCh38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.T2T.CHM13v2.0, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg17, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg17.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.dbSNP151.major, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.dbSNP151.minor, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hs1, BSgenome.Mdomestica.UCSC.monDom5, BSgenome.Mfascicularis.NCBI.5.0, BSgenome.Mfascicularis.NCBI.6.0, BSgenome.Mfuro.UCSC.musFur1, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac10, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac2, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac2.masked, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac3, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac3.masked, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac8, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.masked, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm39, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm8, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm8.masked, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.masked, BSgenome.Osativa.MSU.MSU7, BSgenome.Ppaniscus.UCSC.panPan1, BSgenome.Ppaniscus.UCSC.panPan2, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro2, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro2.masked, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro3, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro3.masked, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro5, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro6, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn4, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn4.masked, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5.masked, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn6, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn7, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer1, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer2, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer3, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr11, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr3, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr3.masked, BSgenome.Tgondii.ToxoDB.7.0, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut1, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut1.masked, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut2, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP12Xv0, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP12Xv2, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP8X, BSgenomeForge, ChIPanalyser, GOTHiC, HelloRanges, leeBamViews, MEDIPS, periodicDNA, REDseq, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP149.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP150.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh38, VarCon, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38
Imports Me ActiveDriverWGS, AllelicImbalance, AnnotationBustR, appreci8R, ATACseqQC, atSNP, BEAT, BSgenome.Alyrata.JGI.v1, BSgenome.Amellifera.BeeBase.assembly4, BSgenome.Amellifera.NCBI.AmelHAv3.1, BSgenome.Amellifera.UCSC.apiMel2, BSgenome.Amellifera.UCSC.apiMel2.masked, BSgenome.Aofficinalis.NCBI.V1, BSgenome.Athaliana.TAIR.04232008, BSgenome.Athaliana.TAIR.TAIR9, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau3, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau3.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau4, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau4.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau6, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau6.masked, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau8, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau9, BSgenome.Btaurus.UCSC.bosTau9.masked, BSgenome.Carietinum.NCBI.v1, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce10, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce11, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce6, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam2, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam2.masked, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam3, BSgenome.Cfamiliaris.UCSC.canFam3.masked, BSgenome.Cjacchus.UCSC.calJac3, BSgenome.Cjacchus.UCSC.calJac4, BSgenome.CneoformansVarGrubiiKN99.NCBI.ASM221672v1, BSgenome.Creinhardtii.JGI.v5.6, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm2, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm2.masked, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3.masked, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm6, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer10, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer11, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer5, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer5.masked, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer6, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer6.masked, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer7, BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer7.masked, BSgenome.Dvirilis.Ensembl.dvircaf1, BSgenome.Ecoli.NCBI.20080805, BSgenome.Gaculeatus.UCSC.gasAcu1, BSgenome.Gaculeatus.UCSC.gasAcu1.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal3, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal3.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4.masked, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal5, BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal6, BSgenome.Gmax.NCBI.Gmv40, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.GRCh38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.T2T.CHM13v2.0, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg17, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg17.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.masked, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hs1, BSgenome.Mdomestica.UCSC.monDom5, BSgenome.Mfascicularis.NCBI.5.0, BSgenome.Mfascicularis.NCBI.6.0, BSgenome.Mfuro.UCSC.musFur1, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac10, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac2, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac2.masked, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac3, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac3.masked, BSgenome.Mmulatta.UCSC.rheMac8, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.masked, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm39, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm8, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm8.masked, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.masked, BSgenome.Osativa.MSU.MSU7, BSgenome.Ppaniscus.UCSC.panPan1, BSgenome.Ppaniscus.UCSC.panPan2, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro2, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro2.masked, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro3, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro3.masked, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro5, BSgenome.Ptroglodytes.UCSC.panTro6, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn4, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn4.masked, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5.masked, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn6, BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn7, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer1, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer2, BSgenome.Scerevisiae.UCSC.sacCer3, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr11, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr3, BSgenome.Sscrofa.UCSC.susScr3.masked, BSgenome.Tgondii.ToxoDB.7.0, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut1, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut1.masked, BSgenome.Tguttata.UCSC.taeGut2, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP12Xv0, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP12Xv2, BSgenome.Vvinifera.URGI.IGGP8X, bsseq, BUSpaRse, CAGEr, chromVAR, circRNAprofiler, cleanUpdTSeq, CleanUpRNAseq, cliProfiler, crisprBowtie, crisprBwa, crisprDesign, CRISPRseek, crisprShiny, crisprViz, diffHic, DMRcaller, DOTSeq, enhancerHomologSearch, esATAC, EventPointer, fitCons.UCSC.hg19, FRASER, gcapc, GencoDymo2, genomation, GenomicDistributionsData, GenVisR, ggbio, gmapR, GreyListChIP, GUIDEseq, Gviz, HiCaptuRe, HiCDCPlus, InPAS, IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR, katdetectr, m6Aboost, MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase1.GRCh38, MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase1.hs37d5, MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase3.GRCh38, MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase3.hs37d5, MafDb.ExAC.r1.0.GRCh38, MafDb.ExAC.r1.0.hs37d5, MafDb.ExAC.r1.0.nonTCGA.GRCh38, MafDb.ExAC.r1.0.nonTCGA.hs37d5, MafDb.gnomAD.r2.1.GRCh38, MafDb.gnomAD.r2.1.hs37d5, MafDb.gnomADex.r2.1.GRCh38, MafDb.gnomADex.r2.1.hs37d5, MafDb.TOPMed.freeze5.hg19, MafDb.TOPMed.freeze5.hg38, MafH5.gnomAD.v4.0.GRCh38, methodical, methrix, MethylSeekR, MMDiff2, monaLisa, Motif2Site, motifbreakR, motifmatchr, MotifPeeker, msgbsR, mSigSpectra, multicrispr, MungeSumstats, musicatk, MutationalPatterns, MutSeqR, ORFik, phastCons100way.UCSC.hg19, phastCons100way.UCSC.hg38, phastCons7way.UCSC.hg38, pipeFrame, podkat, qsea, QuasR, R453Plus1Toolbox, raer, RAIDS, RareVariantVis, RCAS, regioneR, REMP, RESOLVE, revert, ribosomeProfilingQC, RNAmodR, scmeth, SCOPE, signeR, SigsPack, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP149.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP150.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh38, SparseSignatures, spatzie, spiky, SpliceWiz, TAPseq, TFBSTools, transmogR, tRNAscanImport, Ularcirc, UMI4Cats, VariantAnnotation, VariantFiltering, VariantTools, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38
Suggests Me Biostrings, biovizBase, ChIPpeakAnno, chipseq, DegCre, DiffBind, easyRNASeq, eisaR, epiSeeker, factR, GeneRegionScan, GenomeInfoDb, GenomicAlignments, GenomicFeatures, GenomicRanges, gkmSVM, HiCPotts, maftools, metaseqR2, MiRaGE, PICB, plotgardener, polyRAD, ProteoDisco, PWMEnrich, QDNAseq, recoup, RiboCrypt, rtracklayer, Seqinfo, sigminer, Signac, sitadela, TmCalculator
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