Biostrings

String objects representing biological sequences, and matching algorithms

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

Author	H. Pages, R. Gentleman, P. Aboyoun and S. DebRoy
Maintainer	H. Pages

To install this package, start R and enter:

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

Vignettes (Documentation)

Package Downloads

Alignments.pdf

Biostrings2Classes.pdf

DNAStringVectorization.pdf

GenomeSearching.pdf

Package source	Biostrings_2.10.6.tar.gz
Windows binary	Biostrings_2.10.6.zip
MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) binary	Biostrings_2.10.6.tgz
MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary	Biostrings_2.10.6.tgz

Details

biocViews	SequenceMatching , Genetics , Infrastructure
Depends	R , methods , utils , IRanges
Suggests	BSgenome , BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2 , BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3 , drosophila2probe , hgu95av2probe , RUnit
Imports	methods , utils , IRanges
SystemRequirements
License	Artistic-2.0
URL
dependsOnMe	BSgenome , GGtools , ShortRead , altcdfenvs
suggestsMe	annotate , oneChannelGUI