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Rsamtools
This package is for version 3.8 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see Rsamtools.
Binary alignment (BAM), FASTA, variant call (BCF), and tabix file import
Bioconductor version: 3.8
This package provides an interface to the 'samtools', 'bcftools', and 'tabix' utilities (see 'LICENCE') for manipulating SAM (Sequence Alignment / Map), FASTA, binary variant call (BCF) and compressed indexed tab-delimited (tabix) files.
Author: Martin Morgan, Herv\'e Pag\`es, Valerie Obenchain, Nathaniel Hayden
Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer at bioconductor.org>
citation("Rsamtools")):
Installation
To install this package, start R (version "3.5") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("Rsamtools")
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("Rsamtools")
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