LoomFile {LoomExperiment} | R Documentation

## LoomFile objects

### Description

A `LoomFile` class represents a loom file based on the Linnarson Lab's http://linnarssonlab.org/loompy/index.html. A loom file is encoded as an hdf5 file. A loom file consists of a main matrix, optional additional layers, a variable number of row and column annotations and sparse graph objects. It is used to efficienctly stroe very large omics datasets.

The `LoomFile` class extends the functionality of the `RTLFile` from the `rtracklayer` package.

### Author(s)

Daniel Van Twisk

[Package LoomExperiment version 1.6.0 Index]