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title: 'gdscloud: Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files'
version: 0.99.2
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gdscloud
abstract: Provides read-only access to GDS (Genomic Data Structure) files stored on
  cloud storage services including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Azure
  Blob Storage, as well as any HTTP/HTTPS URL. Extends the 'gdsfmt' package to transparently
  open GDS files from cloud URLs (http://, https://, s3://, gs://, az://) using efficient
  block caching and HTTP Range requests via libcurl.
authors:
- family-names: Zheng
  given-names: Xiuwen
  email: zhengx@u.washington.edu
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'gdscloud: Cloud Storage Access for GDS Files'
  authors:
  - family-names: Zheng
    given-names: Xiuwen
    email: zhengx@u.washington.edu
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.99.0
  url: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
repository: https://biocstaging.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
commit: 9ba6156daf38104c08728bafda2416810c42a973
url: https://github.com/zhengxwen/gdscloud
date-released: '2026-06-15'
contact:
- family-names: Zheng
  given-names: Xiuwen
  email: zhengx@u.washington.edu