Rsamtools with multiple threads?

[junjunlab]

Hi, can Rsamtools run with multiple threads? Thanks!

[PeteHaitch]

If you look at ?Rsamtools::scanBam and scroll through the various functions documented on the corresponding help page you'll find that Rsamtools::sortBam() supports a nThreads argument (requested in https://github.com/Bioconductor/Rsamtools/issues/46).

Searching on GitHub through the package code for nthreads seems to show that it is only this function that supports multiple threads.

[junjunlab]

Thanks, I will check it out.