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VariantTools

Tools for Exploratory Analysis of Variant Calls

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.55.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

Explore, diagnose, and compare variant calls using filters.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.VariantTools

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("VariantTools")

Details

MaintainerMichael Lawrence <lawremi@gmail.com>
AuthorMichael Lawrence, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Robert Gentleman
LicenseArtistic-2.0
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneticVariability, Genetics, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/VariantTools/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("VariantTools"):

Michael Lawrence, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Robert Gentleman. VariantTools: Tools for Exploratory Analysis of Variant Calls. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.VariantTools, R package version 1.55.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/VariantTools.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageVariantTools_1.55.0.tar.gz
macOS binary (arm64)VariantTools_1.55.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), S4Vectors (>= 0.17.33), IRanges (>= 2.13.12), GenomicRanges (>= 1.31.8), VariantAnnotation (>= 1.11.16), methods

Imports: Rsamtools (>= 1.31.2), BiocGenerics, Biostrings, parallel, GenomicFeatures (>= 1.31.3), Matrix, rtracklayer (>= 1.39.7), BiocParallel, GenomeInfoDb, BSgenome, Biobase

Suggests: RUnit, LungCancerLines (>= 0.0.6), RBGL, graph, gmapR (>= 1.21.3), TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, org.Hs.eg.db

Reverse dependencies

Suggests Me (1): VariantToolsData