getInBuiltAnnotation {Rsubread} | R Documentation

## Retrieve In-Built Annotations

### Description

Retrieve an in-built annotation and save it to a data frame.

### Usage

    getInBuiltAnnotation(annotation = "mm10")

### Arguments

`annotation` | a character string specifying the in-built annotation to be retrieved. It has four possible values including `mm10`, `mm9`, `hg38` and `hg19`, corresponding to the NCBI RefSeq annotations for genomes ‘mm10’, ‘mm9’, ‘hg38’ and ‘hg19’, respectively. `mm10` by default.

### Details

The `featureCounts` read summarization function provides in-built annotations for conveniently summarizing reads to genes or exons, and this function allows users to have access to those in-built annotations.

For more information about these annotations, please refer to the help page for `featureCounts` function.

### Value

A data frame with five columns including `GeneID`, `Chr`, `Start`, `End` and `Strand`.

### Author(s)

Wei Shi

### See Also

`featureCounts`

### Examples

    x <- getInBuiltAnnotation("hg38")
    x[1:5,]

[Package Rsubread version 2.6.4 Index]