Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Convert a data.table into a geneAnnotation object.
as.annotationsSetR Documentation

Convert a data.table into a geneAnnotation object.

Description

Create a geneAnnotation object containing the informations on chromosomes, start and end positions, strand, score and name of genes.

Usage

as.annotationsSet(data)

Arguments

data

A data.table with 6 columns corresponding to the genes' chromosome, start posittion, end position, gene name, gene score and gene strand.

Value

An object of class geneAnnotation with the following components:

chromosome

Gene chromosome.

start

Gene transcription start site.

end

Gene transcription termination site.

name

Gene name.

score

Gene score.

strand

Gene strand.

Examples

data(annotations)
as.annotationsSet(annotations)

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