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unique.feat: Remove overlapping genes...

Description

Remove overlapping genes

Usage

unique.feat(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x
An object of type feat, usually read from a genepred file. Should have attributes labelled "transcript_id" which identify features belonging to the same gene.
incomparables
Not currently used (present for S3 compatibility).
...
Not currently used.

Value

  • An object of type feat with overlapping genes removed. If the features are scored, then the feature with the highest score is kept; otherwise the feature with the longest length. If x is a pointer to an object stored in C, the return value will also be a pointer (and x will be altered to the return value).