removeSameExon: Remove exon duplicates
In GeneStructureTools: Tools for spliced gene structure manipulation and analysis

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Removes structural duplicates of exons in a GRanges object

1	removeSameExon(exons)

exons

GRanges object with exons

GRanges object with unique exons

Beth Signal

Other gtf manipulation: UTR2UTR53, addBroadTypes, exonsToTranscripts, filterGtfOverlap, removeDuplicateTranscripts, reorderExonNumbers

gtf <- rtracklayer::import(system.file("extdata","example_gtf.gtf",
package = "GeneStructureTools"))
exons <- gtf[gtf$type=="exon"]
exons.duplicated <- c(exons[1:4], exons[1:4])
length(exons.duplicated)
exons.deduplicated <- removeSameExon(exons.duplicated)
length(exons.deduplicated)