Reads a pairwise genome alignment in MAF format. The file can be plain
text or compressed with gzip.
Arguments
- inputFileName
The name of the file to read
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.