segmentDensity {nullranges}

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Genome segmentation based on feature density

Description

This function allows for various methods (see type) of segmenting based on the density of features x.

Usage

segmentDensity(x, n, L_s = 1e+06, exclude = NULL, type = c("cbs", "hmm"))

Arguments

x	the input GRanges, e.g. genes
n	the number of states
L_s	segment length
exclude	GRanges of excluded region
type	the type of segmentation, either Circular Binary Segmentation "cbs" (which will use 'DNAcopy' to segment) or Hidden Markov Model "hmm" (which will use 'RcppHMM'). These packages are not imported by nullranges, but must be installed by the user

Value

a GRanges with metadata columns containing:

• state segmentation state

• counts average number of genes

Examples

n <- 10000
library(GenomicRanges)
gr <- GRanges("chr1", IRanges(round(
  c(runif(n/4,1,991), runif(n/4,1001,3991),
    runif(n/4,4001,4991), runif(n/4,7001,9991))),
  width=10), seqlengths=c(chr1=10000))
gr <- sort(gr)
exclude <- GRanges("chr1", IRanges(5001,6000), seqlengths=c(chr1=10000))
seg <- segmentDensity(gr, n=3, L_s=100, exclude=exclude, type="cbs")

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