Biostrings

This package is for version 3.17 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see Biostrings.

Efficient manipulation of biological strings

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.3") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("Biostrings")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("Biostrings")

A short presentation of the basic classes defined in Biostrings 2	PDF	R Script
Biostrings Quick Overview	PDF
Handling probe sequence information	PDF	R Script
Multiple Alignments	PDF	R Script
Pairwise Sequence Alignments	PDF	R Script
Reference Manual	PDF
NEWS	Text

Details

biocViews	Alignment, DataImport, DataRepresentation, Genetics, Infrastructure, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Version	2.68.1
In Bioconductor since	BioC 1.6 (R-2.1) or earlier (> 19 years)
License	Artistic-2.0
Depends	R (>= 4.0.0), methods, BiocGenerics(>= 0.37.0), S4Vectors(>= 0.27.12), IRanges(>= 2.31.2), XVector(>= 0.37.1), GenomeInfoDb
Imports	methods, utils, grDevices, graphics, stats, crayon
System Requirements
URL	https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings
Bug Reports	https://github.com/Bioconductor/Biostrings/issues

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Suggests	BSgenome(>= 1.13.14), BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2(>= 1.3.11), BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3(>= 1.3.11), BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg18, drosophila2probe, hgu95av2probe, hgu133aprobe, GenomicFeatures(>= 1.3.14), hgu95av2cdf, affy(>= 1.41.3), affydata(>= 1.11.5), RUnit
Linking To	S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector
Enhances	Rmpi
Depends On Me	alabaster.string, altcdfenvs, amplican, Basic4Cseq, BRAIN, BSgenome, BSgenomeForge, chimeraviz, ChIPanalyser, ChIPsim, cleaver, CODEX, CRISPRseek, DECIPHER, deepSNV, FDb.FANTOM4.promoters.hg19, GeneRegionScan, generegulation, GenomicAlignments, GOTHiC, harbChIP, HelloRanges, hiReadsProcessor, iPAC, JASPAR2014, kebabs, MethTargetedNGS, minfi, Modstrings, MotifDb, msa, muscle, NestLink, oligo, ORFhunteR, pd.ag, pd.aragene.1.0.st, pd.aragene.1.1.st, pd.ath1.121501, pd.barley1, pd.bovgene.1.0.st, pd.bovgene.1.1.st, pd.bovine, pd.bsubtilis, pd.cangene.1.0.st, pd.cangene.1.1.st, pd.canine, pd.canine.2, pd.celegans, pd.chicken, pd.chigene.1.0.st, pd.chigene.1.1.st, pd.chogene.2.0.st, pd.chogene.2.1.st, pd.citrus, pd.clariom.d.human, pd.clariom.s.human, pd.clariom.s.human.ht, pd.clariom.s.mouse, pd.clariom.s.mouse.ht, pd.clariom.s.rat, pd.clariom.s.rat.ht, pd.cotton, pd.cyngene.1.0.st, pd.cyngene.1.1.st, pd.cyrgene.1.0.st, pd.cyrgene.1.1.st, pd.cytogenetics.array, pd.drogene.1.0.st, pd.drogene.1.1.st, pd.drosgenome1, pd.drosophila.2, pd.e.coli.2, pd.ecoli, pd.ecoli.asv2, pd.elegene.1.0.st, pd.elegene.1.1.st, pd.equgene.1.0.st, pd.equgene.1.1.st, pd.felgene.1.0.st, pd.felgene.1.1.st, pd.fingene.1.0.st, pd.fingene.1.1.st, pd.genomewidesnp.5, pd.genomewidesnp.6, pd.guigene.1.0.st, pd.guigene.1.1.st, pd.hc.g110, pd.hg.focus, pd.hg.u133.plus.2, pd.hg.u133a, pd.hg.u133a.2, pd.hg.u133a.tag, pd.hg.u133b, pd.hg.u219, pd.hg.u95a, pd.hg.u95av2, pd.hg.u95b, pd.hg.u95c, pd.hg.u95d, pd.hg.u95e, pd.hg18.60mer.expr, pd.ht.hg.u133.plus.pm, pd.ht.hg.u133a, pd.ht.mg.430a, pd.hta.2.0, pd.hu6800, pd.huex.1.0.st.v2, pd.hugene.1.0.st.v1, pd.hugene.1.1.st.v1, pd.hugene.2.0.st, pd.hugene.2.1.st, pd.maize, pd.mapping250k.nsp, pd.mapping250k.sty, pd.mapping50k.hind240, pd.mapping50k.xba240, pd.margene.1.0.st, pd.margene.1.1.st, pd.medgene.1.0.st, pd.medgene.1.1.st, pd.medicago, pd.mg.u74a, pd.mg.u74av2, pd.mg.u74b, pd.mg.u74bv2, pd.mg.u74c, pd.mg.u74cv2, pd.mirna.1.0, pd.mirna.2.0, pd.mirna.3.0, pd.mirna.4.0, pd.moe430a, pd.moe430b, pd.moex.1.0.st.v1, pd.mogene.1.0.st.v1, pd.mogene.1.1.st.v1, pd.mogene.2.0.st, pd.mogene.2.1.st, pd.mouse430.2, pd.mouse430a.2, pd.mta.1.0, pd.mu11ksuba, pd.mu11ksubb, pd.nugo.hs1a520180, pd.nugo.mm1a520177, pd.ovigene.1.0.st, pd.ovigene.1.1.st, pd.pae.g1a, pd.plasmodium.anopheles, pd.poplar, pd.porcine, pd.porgene.1.0.st, pd.porgene.1.1.st, pd.rabgene.1.0.st, pd.rabgene.1.1.st, pd.rae230a, pd.rae230b, pd.raex.1.0.st.v1, pd.ragene.1.0.st.v1, pd.ragene.1.1.st.v1, pd.ragene.2.0.st, pd.ragene.2.1.st, pd.rat230.2, pd.rcngene.1.0.st, pd.rcngene.1.1.st, pd.rg.u34a, pd.rg.u34b, pd.rg.u34c, pd.rhegene.1.0.st, pd.rhegene.1.1.st, pd.rhesus, pd.rice, pd.rjpgene.1.0.st, pd.rjpgene.1.1.st, pd.rn.u34, pd.rta.1.0, pd.rusgene.1.0.st, pd.rusgene.1.1.st, pd.s.aureus, pd.soybean, pd.soygene.1.0.st, pd.soygene.1.1.st, pd.sugar.cane, pd.tomato, pd.u133.x3p, pd.vitis.vinifera, pd.wheat, pd.x.laevis.2, pd.x.tropicalis, pd.xenopus.laevis, pd.yeast.2, pd.yg.s98, pd.zebgene.1.0.st, pd.zebgene.1.1.st, pd.zebrafish, periodicDNA, pqsfinder, PWMEnrich, qrqc, QSutils, R453Plus1Toolbox, R4RNA, REDseq, rGADEM, RiboProfiling, rRDP, Rsamtools, RSVSim, sangeranalyseR, sangerseqR, SCAN.UPC, SELEX, seqbias, sequencing, ShortRead, SICtools, SimFFPE, ssviz, Structstrings, svaNUMT, systemPipeR, topdownr, TreeSummarizedExperiment, triplex, VarCon
Imports Me	AllelicImbalance, alpine, AneuFinder, AnnotationHubData, appreci8R, ArrayExpressHTS, AssessORF, ATACseqQC, BBCAnalyzer, BCRANK, bcSeq, BEAT, BgeeCall, biovizBase, brainflowprobes, branchpointer, BSgenome, bsseq, BUMHMM, BUSpaRse, CellaRepertorium, CellBarcode, ChIPpeakAnno, ChIPseqR, ChIPsim, chromVAR, circRNAprofiler, CircSeqAlignTk, cleanUpdTSeq, cliProfiler, CNEr, CNVfilteR, cogeqc, compEpiTools, consensusDE, coRdon, crisprBase, crisprBowtie, crisprDesign, crisprScore, CrispRVariants, crisprViz, customProDB, dada2, dagLogo, DAMEfinder, decompTumor2Sig, diffHic, DNAshapeR, DominoEffect, doubletrouble, easyRNASeq, EDASeq, enhancerHomologSearch, ensembldb, ensemblVEP, EpiTxDb, esATAC, eudysbiome, EuPathDB, EventPointer, exomePeak2, factR, FastqCleaner, FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg18, FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19, FLAMES, GA4GHclient, gcapc, gcrma, genbankr, GeneRegionScan, GeneStructureTools, genomation, GenomAutomorphism, GenomicAlignments, GenomicDistributions, GenomicFeatures, GenomicScores, GenVisR, ggbio, ggmsa, girafe, gmapR, gmoviz, GRaNIE, GUIDEseq, Gviz, gwascat, h5vc, heatmaps, HiCDCPlus, HiLDA, HiTC, HTSeqGenie, icetea, idpr, IMMAN, InPAS, IntEREst, InterMineR, IONiseR, ipdDb, IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR, KEGGREST, LinTInd, LowMACA, LymphoSeq, m6Aboost, MADSEQ, MatrixRider, MDTS, MEDIPS, MEDME, memes, MesKit, MetaScope, metaseqR2, methimpute, methylPipe, methylscaper, mia, microbiome, microbiomeDataSets, microbiomeMarker, MicrobiotaProcess, microRNA, MMDiff2, monaLisa, Motif2Site, motifbreakR, motifcounter, motifmatchr, motifStack, MSA2dist, MSnID, MSstatsLiP, MSstatsPTM, multicrispr, MungeSumstats, musicatk, MutationalPatterns, NanoStringNCTools, ngsReports, nucleR, NxtIRFcore, oligoClasses, OmaDB, openPrimeR, ORFik, OTUbase, packFinder, pd.081229.hg18.promoter.medip.hx1, pd.2006.07.18.hg18.refseq.promoter, pd.2006.07.18.mm8.refseq.promoter, pd.2006.10.31.rn34.refseq.promoter, pd.atdschip.tiling, pd.charm.hg18.example, pd.feinberg.hg18.me.hx1, pd.feinberg.mm8.me.hx1, pd.mirna.3.1, pdInfoBuilder, PhyloProfile, PhyloProfileData, phyloseq, pipeFrame, planttfhunter, podkat, polyester, primirTSS, proBAMr, procoil, ProteoDisco, PureCN, Pviz, qPLEXanalyzer, qrqc, qsea, QuasR, r3Cseq, ramwas, RCAS, Rcpi, recoup, regioneR, regutools, REMP, Repitools, RESOLVE, rfaRm, rGADEM, RiboCrypt, ribosomeProfilingQC, RNAmodR, rprimer, Rqc, rtracklayer, sarks, scanMiR, scanMiRApp, scifer, scmeth, SCOPE, scoreInvHap, scPipe, scruff, seqArchR, seqArchRplus, SeqArray, seqpac, seqPattern, SGSeq, signeR, SigsPack, single, SingleMoleculeFootprinting, sitadela, SNPhood, soGGi, SomaticSignatures, SparseSignatures, spiky, SpliceWiz, SPLINTER, sscu, StructuralVariantAnnotation, supersigs, surfaltr, svaRetro, synapter, SynExtend, SynMut, syntenet, systemPipeRdata, TAPseq, TarSeqQC, TFBSTools, transite, trena, tRNA, tRNAdbImport, tRNAscanImport, TVTB, txcutr, tximeta, Ularcirc, UMI4Cats, universalmotif, VariantAnnotation, VariantExperiment, VariantFiltering, VariantTools, wavClusteR, XNAString, YAPSA
Suggests Me	annotate, AnnotationForge, AnnotationHub, bambu, BANDITS, BeadArrayUseCases, BiocGenerics, BRGenomics, CINdex, CSAR, eisaR, exomeCopy, GenomicFiles, GenomicRanges, GWASTools, HiContacts, HPiP, maftools, methrix, methylumi, MiRaGE, mitoClone2, nuCpos, RNAmodR.AlkAnilineSeq, rpx, rSWeeP, rTRM, screenCounter, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP149.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP150.GRCh38, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh37, SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP155.GRCh38, spatzie, splatter, systemPipeTools, treeio, tripr, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37, XtraSNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh38, XVector
Links To Me	DECIPHER, kebabs, MatrixRider, Rsamtools, ShortRead, triplex, VariantAnnotation, VariantFiltering
Build Report	Build Report

Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package	Biostrings_2.68.1.tar.gz
Windows Binary	Biostrings_2.68.1.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (x86_64)	Biostrings_2.68.1.tgz
macOS Binary (arm64)	Biostrings_2.68.1.tgz
Source Repository	git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings
Source Repository (Developer Access)	git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Biostrings
Bioc Package Browser	https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/Biostrings/
Package Short Url	https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings/
Package Downloads Report	Download Stats
Old Source Packages for BioC 3.17	Source Archive