GenomicFeatures (version 1.24.2)

FeatureDb-class: FeatureDb objects

Description

The FeatureDb class is a generic container for storing genomic locations of an arbitrary type of genomic features. See ?TxDb for a container for storing transcript annotations.

See ?makeFeatureDbFromUCSC for a convenient way to make FeatureDb objects from BioMart online resources.

See Also

• TheTxDbclass for storing transcript annotations.
• makeFeatureDbFromUCSCfor a convenient way to make a FeatureDb object from UCSC online resources.
• saveDbandloadDbfor saving and loading the database content of a FeatureDb object.
• featuresfor how to extract genomic features from a FeatureDb object.

Examples

fdb_file <- system.file("extdata", "FeatureDb.sqlite",
                        package="GenomicFeatures")
fdb <- loadDb(fdb_file)
fdb