[BioC] Reading gff files in R

Naira Naouar nanao at psb.ugent.be
Wed Oct 22 10:56:28 CEST 2008


Thank you a lot for all your answers :)

Best regards,
Naira

Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Naira Naouar <nanao at psb.ugent.be 
> <mailto:nanao at psb.ugent.be>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     I was wondering if there were already tools to read gff files in R?
>     I am looking for a fast way to extract gene coordinates from a gff
>     file.
>
>
> The rtracklayer package can do this.
>
> Just:
> track <- import(file)
> and the attributes become columns in the featureData slot of 'track'.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Naira
>
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