fetchChromSizes: fetchChromSizes function.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) Examples

View source: R/utils.R

Description

This function tries to automate the fetch of chromosome sizes for assemblies from UCSC.

Usage

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  fetchChromSizes(assembly)

Arguments

assembly

A character object: the canonical name of assembly, i.e., ‘hg19’ for UCSC.

Details

This function downloads ‘chromInfo.txt.gz’ from UCSC golden path for UCSC assemblies.

Value

A object of Seqinfo is returned.

Note

Currently, the assemblies from UCSC are supported.

Author(s)

Ge Tan

Examples

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CNEr documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 5:36 p.m.