whop.ucsc.geneInfoSimilar: Return information UCSC has about any genes with similar...

In WhopGenome: High-Speed Processing of VCF, FASTA and Alignment Data

Description

Information about any genes named similarly as specified in 'gen' (and optionally required to be located on chromosome 'chr') is returned.

Usage

whop.ucsc.geneInfoSimilar(gen, chr = NA)

Arguments

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

Details

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

Value

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

Author(s)

Ulrich Wittelsbuerger

See Also

whop.ucsc.geneInfo

WhopGenome documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:12 p.m.