rtracklayer improvements
- Mentors
- Michael Lawrence, Toby Hocking
- Organization
- R Project for Statistical Computing
rtracklayer is an Extensible framework for interacting with multiple genome browsers.
The project adds the following new features for rtracklayer.
- Support for UCSC Track Hub: Track Hub is a group of text files that describes directories of genomic data, it involves parsing of text files and appropriately storing them in memory while providing a user-friendly command line interface.
- Support for bigBed file format: Add C functions to read and write bigBed file format using the kent library and implemented R wrapper around those C functions.
Above mentioned features provide rtracklayer users a command-line interface to interact with both UCSC Track Hubs and bigBed files.