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BamScale

This is the development version of BamScale; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

Bioconductor-Friendly Multithreaded BAM Processing


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Multithreaded sequential BAM processing built on top of the ompBAM C++ engine. BamScale provides user-friendly BAM read and scan interfaces designed for compatibility with existing Bioconductor workflows.

Author: Chirag Parsania [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Chirag Parsania <chirag.parsania at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("BamScale")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


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

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("BamScale")

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("BamScale")
Benchmarking BamScale: reader throughput and end-to-end workflow impact HTML R Script
Getting started with BamScale HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews Alignment, Coverage, DataImport, QualityControl, Sequencing, Software
Version 0.99.13
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends
Imports BiocGenerics, BiocParallel, Biostrings, GenomeInfoDb, GenomicAlignments, GenomicRanges, IRanges, methods, ompBAM, Rcpp, Rsamtools, S4Vectors
System Requirements C++17, OpenMP
URL https://cparsania.github.io/BamScale/
Bug Reports https://github.com/cparsania/BamScale/issues
See More
Suggests BiocStyle, chipseqDBData, dplyr, ExperimentHub, ggplot2, knitr, readr, rmarkdown, scales, tibble, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidyr
Linking To Rcpp, ompBAM, S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package BamScale_0.99.13.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) BamScale_0.99.10.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) BamScale_0.99.13.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) BamScale_0.99.13.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/BamScale
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/BamScale
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/BamScale/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/BamScale/
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