[BioC] Rsamtools: Sorting BAM files

[Martin Morgan]

On 07/20/2010 06:50 AM, Thomas Unterthiner wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I need to sort BAM files. I am aware of 'samtools sort ...', but being able
> to do this in R (w/o dependence on an external tool like samtools) would
> suit
> my workflow much better.
> 
> Are there any plans to integrate this sorting functionality into Rsamtools?

Thanks for the feedback; I wasn't sure whether users would find this
convenient, or would have samtools installed anyway, and so was not sure
how useful this would be. I'll implement this, but it will not be immediate.

Martin

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Thomas
> 
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