ucscGenomes {rtracklayer}R Documentation

Get available genomes on UCSC

Description

Get a data.frame describing the available UCSC genomes.

Usage

ucscGenomes()

Value

A data.frame with the following columns:

db

UCSC DB identifier (e.g. "hg18")

species

The name of the species (e.g. "Human")

date

The date the genome was built

name

The official name of the genome build

Author(s)

Michael Lawrence

See Also

UCSCSession for details on specifying the genome.

Examples

ucscGenomes()

[Package rtracklayer version 1.14.1 Index]