recount_genes {recount} | R Documentation

## Gene annotation used in recount

### Description

Gene annotation extracted from Gencode v25 (GRCh38.p7) used in recount. Data extraced on October 12th, 2017. The symbols were updated compared to the version from January 17th, 2017. It includes the sum of the width of the disjoint exons which can be used for normalizing the counts provided in the RangedSummarizedExperiment-class objects.

### Format

A GRanges-class with one range per gene. The names match their Gencode v25 ids. The GRanges-class has three metadata columns.

gene_id

  the Gencode v25 ids, identical to the names.

bp_length

  the sum of the width of the disjoint exons for that given gene.

symbol

  a CharacterList with the corresponding gene symbols.

### References

https://jhubiostatistics.shinyapps.io/recount/

### See Also

reproduce_ranges, recount_exons

[Package recount version 1.20.0 Index]