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ShortRead

FASTQ input and manipulation

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.71.1

This package implements sampling, iteration, and input of FASTQ files. The package includes functions for filtering and trimming reads, and for generating a quality assessment report. Data are represented as DNAStringSet-derived objects, and easily manipulated for a diversity of purposes. The package also contains legacy support for early single-end, ungapped alignment formats.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("ShortRead")

Details

MaintainerBioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer@bioconductor.org>
AuthorBioconductor Package Maintainer [cre], Martin Morgan [aut], Michael Lawrence [ctb], Simon Anders [ctb], Rohit Satyam [ctb] (Converted Overview.Rnw vignette from Sweave to RMarkdown / HTML.), J Wokaty [ctb]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/ShortRead, https://github.com/Bioconductor/ShortRead, https://support.bioconductor.org/tag/ShortRead
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/ShortRead/issues
Downloads rank7516
Source branchdevel
biocViewsDataImport, QualityControl, Sequencing, Software

Documentation

Download

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

Source packageShortRead_1.71.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)ShortRead_1.71.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)ShortRead_1.71.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)ShortRead_1.71.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: BiocGenerics (>= 0.59.9), BiocParallel, Biostrings (>= 2.47.6), Rsamtools (>= 1.31.2), GenomicAlignments (>= 1.15.6)

Imports: Biobase, S4Vectors (>= 0.17.25), IRanges (>= 2.13.12), Seqinfo, GenomicRanges (>= 1.31.8), pwalign, hwriter, methods, lattice, latticeExtra

LinkingTo: S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector, Biostrings, Rhtslib

Suggests: BiocStyle, RUnit, biomaRt, GenomicFeatures, yeastNagalakshmi, knitr

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (10): chipseq, EatonEtAlChIPseq, EDASeq, esATAC, NestLink, OTUbase, Rqc, segmentSeq, sequencing, systemPipeR

Imports Me (26): amplican, BEAT, CellBarcode, chipseq, ChIPseqR, ChIPsim, CircSeqAlignTk, dada2, DBTC, easyRNASeq, FastqCleaner, FLAMES, genBaRcode, GOTHiC, icetea, metabinR, nucleR, posDemux, QsRutils, QuasR, R453Plus1Toolbox, RSVSim, scruff, seqpac, tidyGenR, UMI4Cats

Suggests Me (13): BiocParallel, CSAR, demulticoder, DspikeIn, fraq, GenomicAlignments, HiCDataLymphoblast, inDAGO, Rsamtools, S4Vectors, systemPipeRdata, vectra, yeastRNASeq