alabaster.vcf

alabaster.vcf saves variant calling SummarizedExperiment to file and loads them back as VCF objects.

Key Features:

• Portable Serialization: Provides a more portable alternative to serialization of variant calling SummarizedExperiment objects into RDS files.
• Metadata Association: Each artifact is associated with metadata for further interpretation.
• Metadata Enrichment: Downstream applications can enrich this metadata with context-specific properties.

Scientific Applications:

• Variant Data Storage: Enables saving and loading of variant calling data in a standardized, portable format.
• Interoperable Variant Analysis: Facilitates transfer of variant data between SummarizedExperiment and VCF object formats for downstream bioinformatics workflows.

Methodology:

The package serializes variant calling SummarizedExperiment objects to file and deserializes them back as VCF objects, with metadata attached to each artifact.