fetch_gene_length: Fetch gene lengths from gene IDs

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Using the Ensembl hg19 assembly, the function established a SQL connection with the Ensembl DB, and retrieves all the transcripts associated with each gene. A longest transcript is determined by merging all the exons of individual transcripts. The concatenated length is computed and returned per gene ID

Usage

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fetch_gene_length(select_genes)

Arguments

select_genes

A character vector with a given set of interesting genes

Value

A vector of gene lengths


ssarda/genomeutils documentation built on May 30, 2019, 8:42 a.m.