Overview | Read throughput on a single large BAM | End-to-end impact tracks the read fraction | A note on cores and fairness | Beyond reading: in-reader aggregation (new in 0.99.14) | Output is identical to the standard tools | Try it | Reproducing the full benchmarks | Session information
Package: BamScale 0.99.14
Chirag Parsania
BamScale: Bioconductor-Friendly Multithreaded BAM Processing
Multithreaded sequential BAM processing built on top of the ompBAM C++ engine. BamScale provides user-friendly BAM read and scan interfaces designed for compatibility with existing Bioconductor workflows.
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manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION |NEWS
card.svg |card.png
BamScale/json (API)
| # Install 'BamScale' in R: |
| install.packages('BamScale', repos = c('https://bioc.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) |
Bug tracker:https://github.com/cparsania/bamscale/issues
Pkgdown/docs site:https://cparsania.github.io
Uses libs:
On BioConductor:BamScale-0.99.14(bioc 3.24)
softwaredataimportsequencingcoveragealignmentqualitycontrolzlibcppopenmp
Last updated from:39795de370. Checks:1 ERROR, 11 NOTE, 2 OK. Indexed: yes.
| Target | Result | Time | Files | Syslog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bioc-checks | ERROR | 185 | ||
| linux-devel-arm64 | NOTE | 373 | ||
| source / vignettes | OK | 268 | ||
| linux-release-arm64 | NOTE | 349 | ||
| macos-release-arm64 | NOTE | 556 | ||
| macos-release-x86_64 | NOTE | 769 | ||
| macos-oldrel-arm64 | NOTE | 435 | ||
| macos-oldrel-x86_64 | NOTE | 1097 | ||
| windows-devel-arm64 | NOTE | 394 | ||
| windows-devel-x86_64 | NOTE | 444 | ||
| windows-release-arm64 | NOTE | 356 | ||
| windows-release-x86_64 | NOTE | 332 | ||
| windows-oldrel-x86_64 | NOTE | 343 | ||
| wasm-release | OK | 165 |
Exports:bam_countbam_coveragebam_coverage_bigwigbam_readdecode_compact_qualdecode_compact_seqdecode_seqqual_compactfragment_sizesmapq_dist
Dependencies:askpassBHBiocGenericsBiocParallelBiostringsbitopscigarillocodetoolscpp11crayoncurlformatRfutile.loggerfutile.optionsgenericsGenomeInfoDbGenomicAlignmentsGenomicRangeshttrIRangesjsonlitelambda.rmimeompBAMopensslR6RcppRhtslibRsamtoolsS4VectorsSeqinfosnowsysUCSC.utilsXVector
Benchmarking BamScale: reader throughput and end-to-end workflow impact
Last update: 2026-08-12
Started: 2026-04-20
Getting started with BamScale
Introduction | Installation | Basic usage | Metadata-oriented BAM access | Filtering with ScanBamParam | Alignment-object output | Sequence and quality extraction | Fast count summaries | Relationship to existing Bioconductor tools | Session information
Last update: 2026-05-04
Started: 2026-04-20
Readme and manuals
Help Manual
| Help page | Topics |
|---|---|
| Count BAM records with Bioconductor-compatible filtering | bam_count |
| Per-base coverage, aggregated in C++ | bam_coverage |
| Write per-base coverage to a bigWig, computed in C++ | bam_coverage_bigwig |
| Fast BAM reading with Bioconductor-compatible arguments | bam_read |
| Decode compact BamScale quality output | decode_compact_qual |
| Decode compact BamScale sequence output | decode_compact_seq |
| Decode compact 'seq' and 'qual' columns in BamScale output | decode_seqqual_compact |
| Fragment-size distribution, aggregated in C++ | fragment_sizes |
| Mapping-quality (MAPQ) distribution, aggregated in C++ | mapq_dist |
