It does not need the reference genome as that information can be parsed from the bigwig file
Value
A GRanges object with bins of bin_size bins matching the genome the bigWig file was mapped to.
Examples
tile_seqinfo(GenomeInfoDb::Seqinfo(genome = "mm9"), 50000)
#> GRanges object with 54531 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
#> seqnames ranges strand
#> <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle>
#> [1] chr1 1-50000 *
#> [2] chr1 50001-100000 *
#> [3] chr1 100001-150000 *
#> [4] chr1 150001-200000 *
#> [5] chr1 200001-250000 *
#> ... ... ... ...
#> [54527] chrUn_random 5700001-5750000 *
#> [54528] chrUn_random 5750001-5800000 *
#> [54529] chrUn_random 5800001-5850000 *
#> [54530] chrUn_random 5850001-5900000 *
#> [54531] chrUn_random 5900001-5900358 *
#> -------
#> seqinfo: 35 sequences from an unspecified genome