[<img src="https://www.bioconductor.org/images/logo/jpg/bioconductor_logo_rgb.jpg" width="200" align="right"/>](https://bioconductor.org/) **Biostrings** is an R/Bioconductor package for efficient manipulation of biological strings. See https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings for more information including how to install the release version of the package (please refrain from installing directly from GitHub).