Rsamtools-package {Rsamtools} | R Documentation

## 'samtools' aligned sequence utilities interface

### Description

This package provides facilities for parsing samtools BAM (binary) files representing aligned sequences.

### Details

See `packageDescription('Rsamtools')` for package details. A useful starting point is the `scanBam` manual page.

### Note

This package documents the following classes for purely internal reasons, see help pages in other packages: `bzfile`, `fifo`, `gzfile`, `pipe`, `unz`, `url`.

### Author(s)

Author: Martin Morgan

Maintainer: Biocore Team c/o BioC user list <bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch>

### References

The current source code for samtools and bcftools is from https://github.com/samtools/samtools. Additional material is at http://samtools.sourceforge.net/.

### Examples

    packageDescription('Rsamtools')

[Package Rsamtools version 1.32.3 Index]