On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Naira Naouar <nanao@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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