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packFinder

de novo Annotation of Pack-TYPE Transposable Elements

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.24.0

Algorithm and tools for in silico pack-TYPE transposon discovery. Filters a given genome for properties unique to DNA transposons and provides tools for the investigation of returned matches. Sequences are input in DNAString format, and ranges are returned as a dataframe (in the format returned by as.dataframe(GRanges)).

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("packFinder")

Details

MaintainerJack Gisby <jackgisby@gmail.com>
AuthorJack Gisby [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0511-8123>), Marco Catoni [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3258-2522>)
LicenseGPL-2
URLhttps://github.com/jackgisby/packFinder
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/jackgisby/packFinder/issues
Downloads rank289
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsAnnotation, Genetics, SequenceMatching, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: Biostrings, GenomicRanges, kmer, ape, methods, IRanges, S4Vectors

Suggests: biomartr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, dendextend, biocViews, BiocCheck, BiocStyle