Re: [Bioc-devel] Extending Views to support GRanges (and possibly BigWig files)

Yes, I am generally in favor of the GViews, and I've been a fan of Views since they were invented. Was just pointing out that we can do a lot with Lists these days. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote: > On 06/28/2016 05:43 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote: >> >>

Re: [Bioc-devel] Extending Views to support GRanges (and possibly BigWig files)

On 06/28/2016 03:54 AM, Johnston, Jeffrey wrote: During the BioC developer day, Hervé brought up the idea of possibly extending the concept of GenomicViews to other use cases. I'd like to share how we currently use GenomicRanges, Views and RleLists to perform certain analyses, and hopefully

Re: [Bioc-devel] Extending Views to support GRanges (and possibly BigWig files)

Thanks for these use cases. I've been wondering about the usefulness of Views given how far along Lists have come since the invention of Views. Instead of viewSums(Views(cov, gr)) we could just do sum(cov[gr]). The latter works today. The difference between the Views and List approach is that the

[Bioc-devel] Extending Views to support GRanges (and possibly BigWig files)

During the BioC developer day, Hervé brought up the idea of possibly extending the concept of GenomicViews to other use cases. I'd like to share how we currently use GenomicRanges, Views and RleLists to perform certain analyses, and hopefully demonstrate that a way to directly use Views with