Hi Evan,

rtracklayer does not support the MAF format. I could see it being parsed
into something like a GRangesList. What are you trying to do with this data?

Michael

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Evan [guest] <guest@bioconductor.org>wrote:

>
> I'd like to get drosophila UCSC multiz _alignments_ with other species for
> a region (not just the alignment ) in their maf-file format or similar
>  downloaded into an R object.
> Is that possible with track(...) or another call?
> Thank you for your help
>
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