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Rbowtie2

This is the released version of Rbowtie2; for the devel version, see Rbowtie2.

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

An R Wrapper for Bowtie2 and AdapterRemoval


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

This package provides an R wrapper of the popular bowtie2 sequencing reads aligner and AdapterRemoval, a convenient tool for rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging. The package contains wrapper functions that allow for genome indexing and alignment to those indexes. The package also allows for the creation of .bam files via Rsamtools.

Author: Zheng Wei [aut, cre], Wei Zhang [aut]

Maintainer: Zheng Wei <wzweizheng at qq.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("Rbowtie2")):

Zheng Wei, Wei Zhang. Rbowtie2: An R Wrapper for Bowtie2 and AdapterRemoval. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Rbowtie2, R package version 2.18.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rbowtie2.

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("Rbowtie2")

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("Rbowtie2")
An Introduction to Rbowtie2 HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Alignment, Preprocessing, Sequencing, Software
Version2.18.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.6 (R-3.4) (9 years)
License GPL (>= 3)
Depends R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports magrittr, Rsamtools
System RequirementsC++11, GNU make, samtools
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Suggests knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), rmarkdown
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Imports Me CircSeqAlignTk, esATAC, MetaScope, UMI4Cats
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package Rbowtie2_2.18.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) Rbowtie2_2.18.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) Rbowtie2_2.18.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) Rbowtie2_2.18.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Rbowtie2
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Rbowtie2
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rbowtie2/
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