rbamtools (version 2.16.17)

rbamtools-package: Reading, writing and manipulating BAM-file format.

Description

BAM is Binary (Sequence) Alignment/Map format. Many sequence alignment products which align second generation sequence reads to a genomic reference (such as the human genome) use BAM-file format as output. Analysis of results of a sequence alignment requires reading and interpreting BAM-files and sometimes manipulating BAM-files. The rbamtools package provides a R-interface to the samtools C-library by Heng Li.

Details

Package:	rbamtools
Type:	Package
Version:	2.0
Date:	2012-02-03
License:	Artistic 2.0 + MIT License (see LICENSE in src/samtools subdirectory)
LazyLoad:	yes
Depends:	methods

The package is organized in S4 classes. Four classes represent the data and organize the defined functionality:

bamReader	Reading aligns from a BAM-file
bamAlign	Single BAM alignment (including Data accessor functions)
bamRange	(Linked-) List container for BAM alignments
bamWriter	Writing alings to a BAM-file
gapList	(Linked-) List container for alignment gaps.

References

The SAM Format Specification (v1.4-r985). The SAM Format Specification Working Group. September 7, 2011. Li H.*, Handsaker B.*, Wysoker A., Fennell T., Ruan J., Homer N., Marth G., Abecasis G., Durbin R. and 1000 Genome Project Data Processing Subgroup (2009) The Sequence alignment/map (SAM) format and SAMtools. Bioinformatics, 25, 2078-9.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
bam <- system.file("extdata", "accepted_hits.bam", package="rbamtools")
idx <- system.file("extdata", "accepted_hits.bam.bai", package="rbamtools")
#
reader<-bamReader(bam)
isOpen(reader)
#
align<-getNextAlign(reader)
#
loadIndex(reader,idx)
indexInitialized(reader)
#
coords<-as.integer(c(0,0,249250621))
range<-bamRange(reader,coords)
align<-getNextAlign(range)
#
bamClose(reader)
# }