seqnamesTabix: Retrieve sequence names defined in a tabix file.

In Bioconductor/Rsamtools: Binary alignment (BAM), FASTA, variant call (BCF), and tabix file import

Retrieve sequence names defined in a tabix file.

Description

This function queries a tabix file, returning the names of the ‘sequences’ used as a key when creating the file.

Usage

seqnamesTabix(file, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'character'
seqnamesTabix(file, ...)

Arguments

file	A character(1) file path or TabixFile instance pointing to a ‘tabix’ file.
...	Additional arguments, currently ignored.

Value

A character() vector of sequence names present in the file.

Author(s)

Martin Morgan <[e-mail]>.

Examples

fl <- system.file("extdata", "example.gtf.gz", package="Rsamtools",
                  mustWork=TRUE)
seqnamesTabix(fl)

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