BaseSpaceR-package: R SDK for BaseSpace RESTful API
Description
The BaseSpaceR package provides a rich R interface to
Illumina's BaseSpace cloud computing environment, enabling the fast
development of data analysis and visualisation tools.
Details
BaseSpace is Illumina's next-generation sequencing cloud computing
environment designed with biologists in mind. Researcher can easily
store, analyze, collaborate, and share genetic data
(https://basespace.illumina.com).
BaseSpaceR is a SDK ofering methods and data structures for working
with the data resources BaseSpace REST API exposes.
Features include:
- Persistent connection with the REST server.
- Support for the REST API query parameters.
- Vectorized operations in line with the R semantic. Allows for
queries across multiple Projects, Samples, AppResults, Files, etc.
- S4 class system used to represent the BaseSpace data model.
- Portability on most platforms: Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.