readBfaToc             package:ShortRead             R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     As 'pileup' needs to know the lengths of the reference sequences,
     this function is provided which extracts this information from a
     .bfa file (Maq's "binary FASTA" format).

_U_s_a_g_e:

     readBfaToc( bfafile )

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

 bfafile: The file name of the .bfa file.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An integer vector with one element per reference sequence found in
     the .bfa file, each vector element named with the sequence name
     and having the sequence length as value.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Simon Anders, EMBL-EBI, sanders@fs.tum.de

     (Note: The C code for this function incorporates code from Li
     Heng's MAQ software, (c) Li Heng and released by him under GPL 2.

