The main reason to use this function is speed up the process of reading in a large paf file that has no tags. Functions like read.table, read_delim (reader) and fread (data.table) can process a 12 column file more quickly than pafr's read_paf. If you you do not need tag data for your analyses or visualizations, it might make sense to use a fast reading function to get a 12 column data.frame, convert that data.frame into a `pafr object with this function. The `pafr` object can then work easily with the functions in this package.
as_paf(paf_data_frame)
| paf_data_frame | a data.frame object with 12 columns. Column names and types will be over-written in the returned object |
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a pafr object
read_paf