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BSgenome

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Software infrastructure for efficient representation of full genomes and their SNPs

v1.80.0 · software · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 1.9 · Oct 4, 2006

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 40 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Infrastructure shared by all the Biostrings-based genome data packages.

Test coverage

Line coverage

Expression

Tests / Examples

Functions

190 34 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 13 max

Call network

190 nodes / 222 edges

Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

9,138

Files

41

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 5,955 (65.2%)Docs 2,328 (25.5%)Vignettes 855 (9.4%)

API

Exported functions

51

Internal functions

149

Recent export changes

v3.5+13 saveAsOnDiskLongTable_old, saveRowidsForOnDiskLongTable_old, OnDiskLongTable_old +10 more  −3 saveAsOnDiskLongTable, saveRowidsForOnDiskLongTable, getRowsByIndexFromOnDiskLongTable

Testing & CI

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Roxygen coverage

62.7%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

50%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

2.8.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

40

First release

2006-10-07

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

16

LOC over versions

v1.9: 365 LOCv2.0: 684 LOCv2.1: 807 LOCv2.2: 1,059 LOCv2.3: 2,149 LOCv2.4: 2,922 LOCv2.5: 3,493 LOCv2.6: 4,148 LOCv2.7: 4,250 LOCv2.8: 4,283 LOCv2.9: 4,280 LOCv2.10: 4,325 LOCv2.11: 4,837 LOCv2.12: 4,932 LOCv2.13: 4,965 LOCv2.14: 7,075 LOCv3.0: 7,455 LOCv3.1: 9,776 LOCv3.2: 9,119 LOCv3.3: 9,171 LOCv3.4: 9,143 LOCv3.5: 10,303 LOCv3.6: 10,279 LOCv3.7: 10,285 LOCv3.8: 10,284 LOCv3.9: 10,284 LOCv3.10: 10,349 LOCv3.11: 10,756 LOCv3.12: 11,038 LOCv3.13: 11,081 LOCv3.14: 11,081 LOCv3.15: 11,089 LOCv3.16: 11,155 LOCv3.17: 11,086 LOCv3.18: 11,102 LOCv3.19: 9,138 LOCv3.20: 9,133 LOCv3.21: 9,134 LOCv3.22: 9,137 LOCv3.23: 9,138 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 45 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
56%
References docs
0%

Topics

Depended on by (308)

CRAN (8)

People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BSgenome")
Pagès, H. (2026). BSgenome: Software infrastructure for efficient representation of full genomes and their SNPs (Version 1.80.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/BSgenome

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BSgenome version 1.80.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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