ShortRead: a bioconductor package for input, quality assessment and exploration of high-throughput sequence data.

ABSTRACT

UNLABELLED ShortRead is a package for input, quality assessment, manipulation and output of high-throughput sequencing data. ShortRead is provided in the R and Bioconductor environments, allowing ready access to additional facilities for advanced statistical analysis, data transformation, visualization and integration with diverse genomic resources. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION This package is implemented in R and available at the Bioconductor web site; the package contains a 'vignette' outlining typical work flows.