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Table 1 A complete description of package functionality and executable examples can be found in the vignette and manual of VPA

From: VPA: an R tool for analyzing sequencing variants with user-specified frequency pattern

Function

Description

LoadFiltering

Load data from study subjects and perform position-level quality filtering

Patterning

Prioritize sequencing variants in user-specified frequency pattern

read.vcf

Read data file in VCF format

write.vcf

Write a VCF format object to a file

filtervcf

Filter sequencing variants with user-specified quality criteria

filterpos

Filter sequencing variants against known SNP datasets

Pos2Gene

Annotate sequencing variants into genes

gefreq

Frequency analysis at the gene level (for aggregates of variants)

subvcf

Extract a subset of variants from a VCF format object

pos2seq

Retrieve information for position of interest from tabix indexed data file

vcfreq

Summarize the frequencies of sequencing variants