Transform public data resources into Bioconductor Data Structures ~~ package title ~~

Description

These recipes convert a wide variety and a growing number of public bioinformatic data sets into easily-used standard Bioconductor data structures.

Details

This package provides a set of methods which convert bioinformatic data resources into standard Bioconductor data types. For example, a UCSC genome browser track, expressed as a BED file, is converted into a GRanges object. Not every valuable data resource can be transformed quite so easily; some require more elaborate transformation, and hence a more specialized recipe. Every effort is made to limit the number of recipes required. One strategy that helps with the principle of "zero curation": unless absolutely required, the "cooked" version of the data resource produced by a recipe is a simple and unembellished reflection of the original data in its downloaded form.

Author(s)

Dan Tenenbaum, Paul Shannon

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