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Rbwa

R wrapper for BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM aligners

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.16.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Provides an R wrapper for BWA alignment algorithms. Both BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM are available. Convenience function to build a BWA index from a reference genome is also provided. Currently not supported for Windows machines.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.Rbwa

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Rbwa")

Details

MaintainerJean-Philippe Fortin <fortin946@gmail.com>
AuthorJean-Philippe Fortin [aut, cre]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/Jfortin1/Rbwa
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/crisprVerse/Rbwa/issues
System RequirementsGNU make
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAlignment, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rbwa/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("Rbwa"):

Jean-Philippe Fortin. Rbwa: R wrapper for BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM aligners. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Rbwa, R package version 1.16.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Rbwa.

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 packageRbwa_1.16.0.tar.gz
macOS binary (arm64)Rbwa_1.16.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)Rbwa_1.16.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1)

Suggests: testthat, BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): crisprBwa

Suggests Me (1): crisprDesign