Reads a pairwise genome alignment in MAF format. The file can be plain
text or compressed with gzip.
Value
a list object with containg coordinates of the alignments in both
genomes and other information such as alignment width and number of matches.
Details
Known limitations: Does not expand shell metacharacters. Trusts blindly file extension to determine compression. Does not perform any validation on the file format. Assumes that the score comes first in the 'a' lines.
See also
Other Data loading functions:
load_genomic_breaks(),
readTrainFile()