ShortRead (version 1.30.0)

readBfaToc: (Legacy) Get a list of the sequences in a Maq .bfa file

Description

As coverage needs to know the lengths of the reference sequences, this function is provided which extracts this information from a .bfa file (Maq's "binary FASTA" format).

Usage

readBfaToc( bfafile )

Arguments

bfafile
The file name of the .bfa file.

Value

reference sequence found in the .bfa file, each vector element named with the sequence name and having the sequence length as value.