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Authors: Brian Schilder, Jack Humphrey, Towfique Raj
README updated: Mar-16-2026
echotabix: Converts genomic data files to tabix format (including liftover, sorting, compression, and indexing steps) with a single function. Retrieves local or remote tabix VCF/tabular files with helper functions for creating queries from subsets of genomic data (e.g GWAS/QTL loci, genomic ranges). Multiple methods available at each step, including wrapper functions for an up-to-date, conda-based installation of htslib tools.
This R package is part of the echoverse suite that supports echolocatoR: an automated genomic fine-mapping pipeline.
If you use echotabix, please cite:
Brian M Schilder, Jack Humphrey, Towfique Raj (2021). echolocatoR: an automated end-to-end statistical and functional genomic fine-mapping pipeline. Bioinformatics, btab658. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab658
Installation
if(!require("BiocManager")) install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("RajLabMSSM/echotabix")
library(echotabix)