GenomicRanges accessors
In the previous exercise, you created a GRanges object from a data frame containing the basic information. You will discover that GRanges can store much more!
Use the accessor method to explore the GRanges object, myGR. You can extract characteristics from a GRanges object such as chromosome names, the number of sequences, the names of each sequence, information about strand, score, length, and more.
The following are basic accessors for GRanges:
seqnames(gr)
ranges(gr)
mcols(gr)
genome(gr)
seqinfo(gr)
For a complete list of accessors, you can check methods(class = "GRanges").
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Bioconductor in R
Exercise instructions
- Get the sequence information for
myGR. - Check the metadata using
mcols().
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Load GenomicRanges
library(___)
# Print the seqinfo of myGR
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# Check the metadata
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