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Hi all,
I'm just wondering if there would be a direct way to convert an
IRanges to an Rle, as in: as(rng,"Rle"). At the moment, I can convert
my IRanges into an integer vector and cast that as an Rle
(Rle(as.integer(rng)), but that is not extremely efficient on a long
IRangesList (with > 700,000 IRanges in it). Takes ~10 mins with an
sapply.
Why I want that is for the following: I have an IRangesList of
transcripts (describing exons at the genome level) and for every one,
I have a bp position at the transcript level that I want to convert
into a genomic bp position. Basically, I need to be able to convert a
given transcript coordinate into the corresponding genomic coordinate.
My IRanges contain the genomic coordinates of every transcript and by
converting it into an integer vector, I can select the right genomic
bp coordinate by using the transcript bp coordinate as an index
(as.integer(rng)[transcript.pos]).
I considered the IRanges approach because I keep the transcript name
and I'm sure that I looking up the right coord in the right
transcript, but I'm open to other suggestions.
Thanks for any pointers,
Cheers,
Nico
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Nicolas Delhomme
Genome Biology Computational Support
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Tel: +49 6221 387 8310
Email: nicolas.delhomme at embl.de
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