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Rbowtie2

An R Wrapper for Bowtie2 and AdapterRemoval

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 2.19.0

This package provides an R wrapper of the popular bowtie2 sequencing reads aligner and AdapterRemoval, a convenient tool for rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging. The package contains wrapper functions that allow for genome indexing and alignment to those indexes. The package also allows for the creation of .bam files via Rsamtools.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Rbowtie2")

Details

MaintainerZheng Wei <wzweizheng@qq.com>
AuthorZheng Wei [aut, cre], Wei Zhang [aut]
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
System RequirementsC++11, GNU make, samtools
Downloads rank622
Source branchdevel
biocViewsAlignment, Preprocessing, Sequencing, Software

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageRbowtie2_2.19.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)Rbowtie2_2.19.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)Rbowtie2_2.19.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)Rbowtie2_2.19.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: magrittr, Rsamtools

Suggests: knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (4): CircSeqAlignTk, esATAC, MetaScope, UMI4Cats