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Yuelin Zhu1, Robert M Stephens, Paul S Meltzer

  • 1Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of HealthBethesda, MD 20892, USA.

BMC Bioinformatics
|January 18, 2013
PubMed
Summary

The SRAdb R/Bioconductor package offers a powerful way to query the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) metadata. It simplifies accessing and analyzing sequencing data from various next-generation platforms.

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