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get_pileup: Get the pileup-statistics from a bam file using Rsamtools

Description

Returns per-base pileup statistics, or a moving average. TODO: Non-overlapping mean is probably the better idea, here, as only one value per bin is reported

Usage

get_pileup(bam_file, min_mapq = 0, top_n = NULL, ...)

Arguments

bam_file

character(1) or BamFile; BAM file path.

min_mapq

Minimum mapping quality.

top_n

If not NULL, return at most the pileups of that many sequences. integer(1).

...

Additional arguments for Rsamtools::pileup

Value

data.frame with sequence names, positions, strand and count information