readCoverageFile: Read coverage file

View source: R/readCoverageFile.R

readCoverageFileR Documentation

Read coverage file

Description

Read coverage file produced by external tools like The Genome Analysis Toolkit or by calculateBamCoverageByInterval.

Usage

readCoverageFile(file, format, zero = NULL, read.length = 100)

Arguments

file

Target coverage file.

format

File format. If missing, derived from the file extension. Currently GATK3 DepthofCoverage, GATK4 CollectFragmentCounts (hdf5), and CNVkit formats supported.

zero

Start position is 0-based. Default is FALSE for GATK, TRUE for BED file based intervals.

read.length

For output formats which do not provide both counts and total coverages, approximate them using the specified read length.

Value

A data.frame with the parsed coverage information.

Author(s)

Markus Riester

See Also

calculateBamCoverageByInterval

Examples


tumor.coverage.file <- system.file("extdata", "example_tumor.txt.gz", 
    package = "PureCN")
coverage <- readCoverageFile(tumor.coverage.file)


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