ucscGenomes {rtracklayer} | R Documentation |
Get available genomes on UCSC
Description
Get a data.frame
describing the available UCSC genomes.
Usage
ucscGenomes(organism=FALSE)
Arguments
organism |
A |
Details
For populating the organism column, the web url https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin is scraped for every assembly version to get the scientific name.
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 |
organism |
The scientific name of the species (e.g. "Homo sapiens") |
Author(s)
Michael Lawrence
See Also
UCSCSession
for details on specifying the
genome.
Examples
ucscGenomes()
[Package rtracklayer version 1.66.0 Index]