removeSameExon {GeneStructureTools}

R Documentation

Remove exon duplicates

Description

Removes structural duplicates of exons in a GRanges object

Usage

removeSameExon(exons)

Arguments

exons

GRanges object with exons

Value

GRanges object with unique exons

Author(s)

Beth Signal

See Also

Other gtf manipulation: UTR2UTR53, addBroadTypes, exonsToTranscripts, filterGtfOverlap, removeDuplicateTranscripts, reorderExonNumbers

Examples

gtf <- rtracklayer::import(system.file("extdata","example_gtf.gtf",
package = "GeneStructureTools"))
exons <- gtf[gtf$type=="exon"]
exons.duplicated <- c(exons[1:4], exons[1:4])
length(exons.duplicated)
exons.deduplicated <- removeSameExon(exons.duplicated)
length(exons.deduplicated)

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