Seqinfo

Seqinfo stores the names, lengths, circularity flags, and genomes for a particular collection of genomic sequences.

Key Features:

• Genomic sequence metadata storage: Stores names, lengths, circularity flags, and genomes for sequences such as chromosomes and/or scaffolds of a specific genome assembly of a given organism.
• Integration with Bioconductor infrastructure: Functions as a seqinfo() component within higher-level objects including GRanges, RangedSummarizedExperiment, VCF, and GAlignments.

Scientific Applications:

• Genome assembly representation: Provides foundational sequence metadata for representing chromosome and scaffold collections from specific genome assemblies.
• Genomic range operations: Enables consistent sequence-level information management across Bioconductor packages for genomic data analysis.

Methodology:

Seqinfo is implemented as a simple S4 class for storing basic information about a collection of genomic sequences.