[Bioc-devel] deprecated extractTranscriptsFromGenome

2014-03-10 Thread rcaloger
Hi, I am the maintainer of chimera package I got an warning indicating the extractTranscriptsFromGenome and extractTranscripts functions from GenomicFeatures package are deprecated. Does anybody could tell me which are the functions that are going to substitute them? Cheers Raf --

Re: [Bioc-devel] deprecated extractTranscriptsFromGenome

2014-03-10 Thread James W. MacDonald
Hi Raf, Under ?extractTranscriptsFromGenome I see this: Description: WARNING: The tools described in this man page are obsolete and in the process of being DEPRECATED. ‘extractTranscriptsFromGenome’ extracts the transcript sequences from a BSgenome data package using the transcript

[Bioc-devel] Conference Announcement - CAMDA 2014

2014-03-10 Thread Djork-Arné Clevert
Dear Colleagues, With great pleasure we announce the 13th International Conference on the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) in Boston, MA, U.S.A., July 11-12, 2014, held as official Satellite Meeting to 22nd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB).

[Bioc-devel] New biocViews for devel branch.

2014-03-10 Thread Arora, Sonali
Hello everyone, The new and revised biocViews suggested by us are now live. Link to previously suggested biocViews email: (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005257.html) We have made the following changes: 1. Modified all the packages in devel (2.14) to reflect the latest

[Bioc-devel] file registry - feedback

2014-03-10 Thread Valerie Obenchain
Hi all, I'm soliciting feedback on the idea of a general file 'registry' that would identify file types by their extensions. This is similar in spirit to FileForformat() in rtracklayer but a more general abstraction that could be used across packages. The goal is to allow a user to supply

Re: [Bioc-devel] file registry - feedback

2014-03-10 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Val, I think it would help understand the motivations behind this proposal if you could give an example of a method where the user cannot supply a file name but has to create a 'File' (or 'FileList') object first. And how the file registry proposal below would help. It looks like you have