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dbSequence

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

DuckDB-Backed Interface for Large-Scale Genomic Data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Provides a DuckDB-backed infrastructure for working with large-scale genomic data that exceeds available memory. Supports lazy evaluation of genomic ranges and efficient overlap queries. Integrates with Bioconductor classes (GRanges, BiocIO) and provides plyranges-compatible API.

Author: Edward C. Ruiz [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-9174-5387 , Ruben Dries [rev], National Human Genome Research Institute [fnd] (grant: 1R01HG014487-01)

Maintainer: Edward C. Ruiz <ecr7407 at gmail.com>

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

Installation

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


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

# The following initializes usage of Bioc devel
BiocManager::install(version='devel')

BiocManager::install("dbSequence")

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("dbSequence")
Data Ingestion HTML R Script
plyranges API HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF

Details

biocViews Coverage, DataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Sequencing, Software
Version 0.99.1
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.6.0)
Imports methods, duckdb, DBI, dbplyr, dplyr, glue, arrow, BiocIO, rtracklayer, Rsamtools, VariantAnnotation, dbProject, GenomicRanges, IRanges, rlang, cli, crayon
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/dbverse-org/dbSequence
Bug Reports https://github.com/dbverse-org/dbSequence/issues
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Suggests testthat (>= 3.0.0), SingleCellExperiment, scater, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, plyranges, microbenchmark
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package dbSequence_0.99.1.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64)
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) dbSequence_0.99.1.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/dbSequence
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/dbSequence
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/dbSequence/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/dbSequence/
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