readBW: Read data from one BigWig file

In qwang-big/irene: R interface to interactive epigenetic analysis

Description

Compute sum score of BigWig file over an input genomic region

Usage

readBW(filename, seqname, start, end)

Arguments

filename	filename of the BigWig file.
seqname	chromosome ID.
start	numeric value of start position.
end	numeric value of end position.

Details

'readBW' returns a numeric value which sums scores from the corresponding genomic loci of the BigWig file.

Value

A numeric value of the density scores of the BigWig file.

Author(s)

Qi Wang

Examples

data <- readBW(system.file("data", "test.bw", package="irene"),"chr1",100000,123000)

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