AnnotationHubRecipes-package: Transform public data resources into Bioconductor Data Structures
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Description
These recipes convert a wide variety and a growing number of public bioinformatic data sets into easily-used standard Bioconductor data structures.Details
ll{
Package: AnnotationHubRecipes
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2012-11-30
License: Artistic-2.0
}
This package provides a set of methods which convert bioinformatic data
resources into standard Bioconductor data types. For example, a UCSC
genome browser track, expressed as a BED file, is converted into a
GRanges object. Not every valuable data resource can be transformed
quite so easily; some require more elaborate transformation, and hence a
more specialized recipe. Every effort is made to limit the number of
recipes required. One strategy that helps with the principle of "zero
curation": unless absolutely required, the "cooked" version of the data
resource produced by a recipe is a simple and unembellished reflection
of the original data in its downloaded form.