data.frame with sample information including
mandatory character columns sample_name and file_bam.
yieldSize
Number of records used for obtaining alignment
information, or NULL for all records
BPPARAM
BiocParallelParam for processing samples in
parallel, defaults to MulticoreParam(1)
Value
sample_info with additional columns paired_end,
read_length, frag_length, and lib_size
if yieldSize is NULL
Details
Alignment information can be inferred from a subset of BAM records
by setting the number of records via argument yieldSize.
Note that library size can only be obtained if yieldSize is NULL.