extendLeaders {ORFik} | R Documentation

## Extend the leaders transcription start sites.

### Description

Will extend the leaders or transcripts upstream by extension. Remember the extension is general not relative, that means splicing will not be taken into account. Requires the `grl` to be sorted beforehand, use `sortPerGroup` to get sorted grl.

### Usage

    extendLeaders(grl, extension = 1000L, cds = NULL)

### Arguments

`grl` | usually a `GRangesList` of 5' utrs or transcripts. Can be used for any extension of groups.
`extension` | an integer, how much to extend the leaders. Or a GRangesList where start / stops by strand are the positions to use as new starts.
`cds` | a `GRangesList` of coding sequences, If you want to extend 5' leaders downstream, to catch upstream ORFs going into cds, include it. It will add first cds exon to grl matched by names. Do not add for transcripts, as they are already included.

### Value

an extended GRangeslist

### Examples

    library(GenomicFeatures)
    samplefile <- system.file("extdata", "hg19_knownGene_sample.sqlite",
                              package = "GenomicFeatures")
    txdb <- loadDb(samplefile)
    fiveUTRs <- fiveUTRsByTranscript(txdb) # <- extract only 5' leaders
    tx <- exonsBy(txdb, by = "tx", use.names = TRUE)
    cds <- cdsBy(txdb,"tx",use.names = TRUE)
    ## now try(extend upstream 1000, downstream 1st cds exons):
    extendLeaders(fiveUTRs, extension = 1000, cds)

    ## when extending transcripts, don't include cds' of course,
    ## since they are already there
    extendLeaders(tx, extension = 1000)

[Package ORFik version 1.6.9 Index]