GenomicTools (version 0.2.6)

gtfToBed: Extract the Chromosomal Information Required in bed Format from an imported gtf table.

Description

This function creates a matrix of gene annotations in bed format, based on the information given in an importet gtf table.

Usage

gtfToBed(gtf)

Arguments

gtf

An imported gtf table.

Value

A data.frame in bed format having the four columns Chr, Start, Stop and Gene

Details

After a gtf file was imported with importGTF this function transforms it into a data.frame with bed formatting.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
annotTrack <- read.table(file="Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.70.gtf",sep="\t")
annotBed <- gtfToBed(annotTrack)
# }