Class "TranscriptRegion", representing a genomic region with transcripts

Description

Upon creation of this object, transcripts present in a specified region will be retrieved from Ensembl

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("TranscriptRegion", ...)

Slots

start:

Object of class "numeric", the start base of the genomic region

end:

Object of class "numeric", the end base of the genomic region

chromosome:

Object of class "character", the chromosome

biomart:

Object of class "Mart", contains link to Ensembl and should be created using the useMart function of the biomaRt package

ens:

Object of class "data.frame", users should not specify this, it contains the output of the query to Ensembl

Methods

show

signature(object = "TranscriptRegion"): ...

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck

References

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen/

See Also

objects to See Also as gdPlot

Examples

showClass("TranscriptRegion")