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alabaster.vcf

Save and Load Variant Data to/from File

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.13.1

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Save variant calling SummarizedExperiment to file and load them back as VCF objects. This is a more portable alternative to serialization of such objects into RDS files. Each artifact is associated with metadata for further interpretation; downstream applications can enrich this metadata with context-specific properties.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.alabaster.vcf

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("alabaster.vcf")

Details

MaintainerAaron Lun <infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards@gmail.com>
AuthorAaron Lun [aut, cre]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsDataImport, DataRepresentation, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/alabaster.vcf/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("alabaster.vcf"):

Aaron Lun. alabaster.vcf: Save and Load Variant Data to/from File. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.alabaster.vcf, R package version 1.13.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/alabaster.vcf.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Download

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

Source packagealabaster.vcf_1.13.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)alabaster.vcf_1.13.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)alabaster.vcf_1.13.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)alabaster.vcf_1.13.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: alabaster.base, VariantAnnotation

Imports: methods, S4Vectors, alabaster.se, alabaster.string, Rsamtools

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): alabaster