Biostrings

String objects representing biological sequences, and matching algorithms

Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or set of sequences.

Author H. Pages, R. Gentleman, P. Aboyoun and S. DebRoy
Maintainer H. Pages

To install this package, start R and enter:

    source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
    biocLite("Biostrings")

Vignettes (Documentation)

Package Downloads

Alignments.pdf
Biostrings2Classes.pdf
DNAStringVectorization.pdf
GenomeSearching.pdf
Source Biostrings_2.8.18.tar.gz
Windows binary Biostrings_2.8.18.zip
OS X binary Biostrings_2.8.18.tgz

Details

biocViews
Depends R, methods, stats
Suggests BSgenome, BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3, drosophila2probe, hgu95av2probe, RUnit
Imports methods, stats
SystemRequirements
License Artistic-2.0
URL
dependsOnMe BSgenome, GGtools, altcdfenvs
suggestsMe annotate, oneChannelGUI, rtracklayer