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FeatureDb-class

FeatureDb objects


Description

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.

Methods

In the code snippets below, x is a FeatureDb object.

metadata(x): Return x's metadata in a data frame.

Author(s)

Marc Carlson

See Also

  • 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.

Examples

fdb_file <- system.file("extdata", "FeatureDb.sqlite",
                        package="GenomicFeatures")
fdb <- loadDb(fdb_file)
fdb

GenomicFeatures

Conveniently import and query gene models

v1.42.3
Artistic-2.0
Authors
M. Carlson, H. Pagès, P. Aboyoun, S. Falcon, M. Morgan, D. Sarkar, M. Lawrence, V. Obenchain
Initial release

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