Also, in an attempt at being a bit more helpful:

On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com>
wrote:

>> i would appreciate if any one can tell me what is the average intergenic
>> distance in both human and mouse??
>
> If I gave you a number, would you believe me? :-)
>
> This is something you can hash out yourself if you get a bit familiar
with IRanges and GenomicRanges functionality -- then whip up a
GenomicFeatures TranscriptDb for your two organisms and have a crack at it.

Off the top of my head, the quick solution I have in mind involves the
`width`, `gaps` and `reduce` functions ... and not necessarily in that
order.

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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