TranscriptRegion-class {GenomeGraphs} | R Documentation

## 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
`size`:
  Object of class `"numeric"`, the size of the plot for this object
`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")

[Package GenomeGraphs version 1.4.1 Index]