countBamInGRanges: Count reads from BAM file in genomic ranges
In exomeCopy: Copy number variant detection from exome sequencing read depth

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

Counts the number of reads with a specified minimum mapping quality from BAM files in genomic ranges specified by a GRanges object. This is a convenience function for counting the reads in ranges covering the targeted regions, such as the exons in exome enrichment experiments, from each sample. These read counts are used by exomeCopy in predicting CNVs in samples.

With the default setting (read.width=1), only the read starts are used for counting purposes (the leftmost position regardless of the strandedness of the read).

With the accurate read width, or with get.width = TRUE, then the function returns the number of overlapping reads, as returned by countOverlaps in the GenomicRanges package.

The function subdivideGRanges can be used first to subdivide ranges of different size into ranges of nearly equal width.

The BAM file requires a associated index file (see the man page for indexBam in the Rsamtools package).

1	countBamInGRanges(bam.file,granges,min.mapq=1,read.width=1,stranded.start=FALSE,get.width=FALSE,remove.dup=FALSE)

`bam.file`	The path of the BAM file for the sample to be counted.
`granges`	An object of type GRanges with the ranges in which to count reads.
`min.mapq`	The minimum mapping quality to count a read. Defaults to 1. Set to 0 for counting all reads.
`read.width`	The width of a read, used in counting overlaps of mapped reads with the genomic ranges. The default is 1, resulting in the counting of only read starts in genomic ranges. If the length of fixed width reads is used, e.g. 100 for 100bp reads, then the function will return the count of all overlapping reads with the genomic ranges. However, counting all overlapping reads introduces dependency between the counts in adjacent windows.
`stranded.start`	If true, the function will create reads of length `read.width` using the strand to determine the read location. A read with + or * strand will start at the given start position, and a read with - strand will end at (start position + CIGAR width - 1).
`get.width`	If true, the function should retrieve the read width from the CIGAR encoding rather than assign the value from read.width.
`remove.dup`	If true, the function will count only one read for each unique combination of position, strand and read width.

An integer vector giving the number of reads over the input GRanges

Rsamtools GRanges subdivideGRanges

  ## get subdivided genomic ranges covering targeted region
  ## using subdivideGRanges()
  example(subdivideGRanges)

  ## BAM file included in Rsamtools package
  bam.file <- system.file("extdata", "mapping.bam", package="exomeCopy")

  ## extract read counts from the BAM file in these genomic ranges
  mcols(target.sub)$sample <- countBamInGRanges(bam.file,target.sub)

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sbdvGR>   ## read in target region BED file
sbdvGR>   target.file <- system.file("extdata", "targets.bed", package="exomeCopy")

sbdvGR>   target.df <- read.delim(target.file, header=FALSE,
sbdvGR+ col.names=c("seqname","start","end")) 

sbdvGR>   ## create GRanges object with 5 ranges over 2 sequences
sbdvGR>   target <- GRanges(seqname=target.df$seqname,
sbdvGR+                IRanges(start=target.df$start,end=target.df$end))

sbdvGR>   ## subdivide into 7 smaller genomic ranges
sbdvGR>   target.sub <- subdivideGRanges(target)