Biostrings

String objects representing biological sequences, and matching algorithms

Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or set of sequences.

Author H. Pages, R. Gentleman, P. Aboyoun and S. DebRoy

Maintainer H. Pages

To install this package, start R and enter:

 source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
 biocLite("Biostrings")

Vignettes (Documentation)

Package Downloads

Alignments.pdf

Biostrings2Classes.pdf

DNAStringVectorization.pdf

GenomeSearching.pdf

Source	Biostrings_2.8.18.tar.gz
Windows binary	Biostrings_2.8.18.zip
OS X binary	Biostrings_2.8.18.tgz

Details

SystemRequirements
biocViews	SequenceMatching , Genetics , Infrastructure
Depends	R, methods, stats
Suggests	BSgenome, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3, drosophila2probe, hgu95av2probe, RUnit
Imports	methods, stats
License	Artistic-2.0
URL
dependsOnMe	BSgenome, GGtools, altcdfenvs
suggestsMe	annotate, oneChannelGUI, rtracklayer