whop.ucsc.geneInfo: Return information from UCSC about a gene named precisely as...
In WhopGenome: High-Speed Processing of VCF, FASTA and Alignment Data

Information about a gene (and optionally required to be located on a certain chromosome) is returned.

1	whop.ucsc.geneInfo(gen, chr = NA)

`gen`	Gene name to query information about
`chr`	If specified, the identifier of the chromosome, on which this gene is located

Gene name, chromosome of origin, strand, and start and end positions of transcription site, coding sequence and exons are returned.

`geneName`	Gene name
`name`	Gene identifier
`chrom`	Chromosome, on which the gene is located
`strand`	Whether this gene is located on the + or - strand
`txStart`	Transcription start site
`txEnd`	Transcription end
`cdsStart`	Coding sequence start
`cdsEnd`	coding sequence end
`exonCount`	Number of exons of this gene
`exonStarts`	comma-separated list of exon start position
`exonEnds`	comma-separated list of exon end positions