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rtracklayer
This package is for version 3.14 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see rtracklayer.
R interface to genome annotation files and the UCSC genome browser
Bioconductor version: 3.14
Extensible framework for interacting with multiple genome browsers (currently UCSC built-in) and manipulating annotation tracks in various formats (currently GFF, BED, bedGraph, BED15, WIG, BigWig and 2bit built-in). The user may export/import tracks to/from the supported browsers, as well as query and modify the browser state, such as the current viewport.
Author: Michael Lawrence, Vince Carey, Robert Gentleman
Maintainer: Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>
citation("rtracklayer")):
Installation
To install this package, start R (version "4.1") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("rtracklayer")
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("rtracklayer")
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