theoneandoney/load-bam-file

Loading BAM files containing genetic information with R (R Markdown)

Loading BAM files with R

An example on how to load BAM file and preview sequence information (in R Markdown).

Data

The data for this example come from an Ensembl genome browser web page (release 105; Dec 2021):

• Ensembl Single species data, Human (homo sapiens), GRCh38.illumina.brain.1.bam:
  • Link to the information about the datasets: https://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/index.html;
  • Direct link to the FTP browser.
  • Caution: Dataset size is approx. 8.9 GB

Why this dataset was selected?

• It is free and open
• It regards homo sapiens
• Information on chromosomes is available