Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about external algorithms to Bioconductor package

2017-11-12 Thread Ryan Thompson
Hi, I don't know the Bioconductor policy for packages that rely on external tools, but for the specific features you mention, there are Bioconductor packages to accomplish most or all of them. You can use samtools via Rsamtools, you can use the Rsubread package in place of bowtie for alignment, an

[Bioc-devel] Question about external algorithms to Bioconductor package

2017-11-12 Thread Ioannis Vardaxis
Hi, I have developed a package and is current under review from Bioconductor. In the future I am considering of making some changes to the package, basically adding more functions etc. My package is currently a peak calling algorithm where the input it gets is either a BAM or SAM format. Because in