FeatureDb objects
The FeatureDb class is a generic container for storing genomic locations of an arbitrary type of genomic features.
See ?TxDb for a container for storing transcript
annotations.
See ?makeFeatureDbFromUCSC for a convenient way to
make FeatureDb objects from BioMart online resources.
In the code snippets below, x is a FeatureDb object.
metadata(x):
Return x's metadata in a data frame.
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The TxDb class for storing transcript annotations.
makeFeatureDbFromUCSC for a convenient way to
make a FeatureDb object from UCSC online resources.
saveDb and loadDb for
saving and loading the database content of a FeatureDb object.
features for how to extract genomic features
from a FeatureDb object.
fdb_file <- system.file("extdata", "FeatureDb.sqlite",
package="GenomicFeatures")
fdb <- loadDb(fdb_file)
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