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Rbwa

R wrapper for BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM aligners

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.16.0

Provides an R wrapper for BWA alignment algorithms. Both BWA-backtrack and BWA-MEM are available. Convenience function to build a BWA index from a reference genome is also provided. Currently not supported for Windows machines.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Rbwa")

Details

MaintainerJean-Philippe Fortin <fortin946@gmail.com>
AuthorJean-Philippe Fortin [aut, cre]
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/Jfortin1/Rbwa
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/crisprVerse/Rbwa/issues
System RequirementsGNU make
Downloads rank175
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsAlignment, Sequencing, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1)

Suggests: testthat, BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): crisprBwa

Suggests Me (1): crisprDesign