[Bioc-devel] bsGenomeName(BSgenomeObject) disappeared in bioc-devel?

[Bhagwat, Aditya]

Dear bioc-devel,

multicrispr is having an error on the bioc-devel build machines<https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.12/bioc-LATEST/multicrispr/malbec1-checksrc.html>, caused by:

unable to find an inherited method for function 'bsgenomeName' for signature '"BSgenome"

This is a bit strange, because normally a BSgenome object gets automatically converted to a GenomeDescription object before being sent to the method bsgenomeName. In bioc-devel, for some reason this mechanism seems to be broken. Is it on purpose? What would be the best fix/patch?

Right now, I'm checking whether explicitation fixes things:
bsname <- GenomeInfoDb::bsgenomeName(bsgenome)                                     # FAILS
bsname <- GenomeInfoDb::bsgenomeName(as(bsgenome, 'GenomeDescription')) # WORKS ? (VERIFYING)

Thank you for feedback :-)

Aditya

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]