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VariantTools

Tools for Working with Genetic Variants

Bioconductor version: 2.14

Tools for detecting, filtering, calling, comparing and plotting variants.

Author: Michael Lawrence, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Robert Gentleman

Maintainer: Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>

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PDF	R Script	Introduction to VariantTools
PDF		Reference Manual
Text		NEWS

biocViews	GeneticVariability, Genetics, Sequencing, Software
Version	1.6.1
In Bioconductor since	BioC 2.11 (R-2.15)
License	Artistic-2.0
Depends	IRanges(>= 1.19.34), GenomicRanges(>= 1.13.43), VariantAnnotation(>= 1.7.35), methods
Imports	Rsamtools(>= 1.11.10), BiocGenerics, Biostrings, parallel, gmapR(>= 1.5.15), GenomicFeatures, Matrix, rtracklayer, BiocParallel, GenomeInfoDb
Suggests	RUnit, LungCancerLines(>= 0.0.6), RBGL, graph
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Imports Me	HTSeqGenie
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