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dear list,
i have to pretty intensively work with genome-wide phastcons scores
and
instead of repeatedly interrogate them through the internet via the
UCSC
genome browser with 'rtracklayer', i'd prefer to do a bulk download of
the *.phastCons46way.wigFix.gz files (about 0.6Gb) at
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/phastCons46way/vertebra
te
and then import them into R storing the information in some memory
efficient data structure (Rle?) that provides me also an efficient way
to query the phastcons score at any position of the human genome.
all documentation and messages i've been able to retrieve through
google
and the BioC list correspond to use cases that involve a small
fraction
of the genome which can be handled by 'rtracklayer' with an internet
connection.
any hint on how to achieve this goal will be very much appreciated,
thanks!
robert.