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