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Rbowtie2

An R Wrapper for Bowtie2 and AdapterRemoval

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 2.18.0

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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.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.Rbowtie2

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Rbowtie2")

Details

MaintainerZheng Wei <wzweizheng@qq.com>
AuthorZheng Wei [aut, cre], Wei Zhang [aut]
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
System RequirementsC++11, GNU make, samtools
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAlignment, Preprocessing, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rbowtie2/

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.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageRbowtie2_2.18.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)Rbowtie2_2.18.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)Rbowtie2_2.18.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)Rbowtie2_2.18.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: magrittr, Rsamtools

Suggests: knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (4): CircSeqAlignTk, esATAC, MetaScope, UMI4Cats