ReadBED: Read BED-formatted file.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

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Description

Read BED-formatted file. See 'Details'.

Usage

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ReadBED(file, collapseRange = TRUE)

Arguments

file

A character string; specifies the input BED file.

collapseRange

A logical scalar; should TRUE loci spanning more than one nucleotide be collapsed to a single nucleotide locus corresponding to the midpoint of the range; default is TRUE.

Details

The function opens and reads in a BED6-formatted file, and stores the annotation features in a GRanges object. Chromosome names must follow either UCSC (chr1, ..., chrM, chrX) or Ensembl naming conventions (1, ..., MT, X).

Value

A GRanges object. See 'Details'.

Author(s)

Maurits Evers, maurits.evers@anu.edu.au

Examples

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bedFile <- system.file("extdata",
                       "miCLIP_m6A_Linder2015_hg38.bed",
                       package = "RNAModR")
sites <- ReadBED(bedFile)

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