This R package extends the VCF S4 class from Bioconductor's
VariantAnnotation
package, with new methods to facilitate import and export of VCF data using
ploidyverse software.
A draft specification for VCF within the ploidyverse can be found at inst/doc/ploidyverse_VCF_specification.md.
This package serves three purposes for R package developers in the ploidyverse:
- Checking whether VCFs meet ploidyverse specifications.
- Facilitating the creation of VCFs that meet ploidyverse specifications.
- Providing easy access to genotype calls and other data in a ploidyverse VCF.
Overall, the goal of this package is to make it as painless as possible for ploidyverse packages to integrate with each other. See the Package Developer Guide at inst/doc/package_developer_guide.Rmd for more information.