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BamScale

This is the development version of BamScale; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

Bioconductor-Friendly Multithreaded BAM Processing


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Multithreaded sequential BAM processing built on top of the ompBAM C++ engine. BamScale provides user-friendly BAM read and scan interfaces designed for compatibility with existing Bioconductor workflows.

Author: Chirag Parsania [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Chirag Parsania <chirag.parsania at gmail.com>

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

Chirag Parsania. BamScale: Bioconductor-Friendly Multithreaded BAM Processing. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.BamScale, R package version 0.99.14, https://bioconductor.org/packages/BamScale.

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Installation

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

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

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("BamScale")

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("BamScale")
Getting started with BamScale HTML R Script
Benchmarking BamScale: reader throughput and end-to-end workflow impact HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews Alignment, Coverage, DataImport, QualityControl, Sequencing, Software
Version0.99.14
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends
Imports BiocGenerics, BiocParallel, Biostrings, GenomeInfoDb, GenomicAlignments, GenomicRanges, IRanges, methods, ompBAM, Rcpp, Rsamtools, S4Vectors
System RequirementsC++17, OpenMP
URLhttps://cparsania.github.io/BamScale/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/cparsania/BamScale/issues
See More
Suggests BiocStyle, chipseqDBData, dplyr, ExperimentHub, ggplot2, knitr, readr, rmarkdown, rtracklayer, scales, tibble, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidyr
Linking To Rcpp, ompBAM, S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector
Enhances
Depends On Me
Imports Me
Suggests Me
Links To Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package BamScale_0.99.14.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) BamScale_0.99.14.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) BamScale_0.99.14.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) BamScale_0.99.14.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/BamScale
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/BamScale
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/BamScale/
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