[BioC] rtracklayer gff import

Cook, Malcolm MEC at stowers.org
Fri Apr 15 00:14:50 CEST 2011


> rtracklayer currently considers GFF3 files to be right-open. 
> The GFF3 spec
> states that start is always <= end, and that zero-width 
> intervals have start
> == end. 

yes but 1 width intervals also have start = end

> To me, this suggests that they are right-open. 
> Otherwise, you need
> some other way to distinguish zero vs. one width intervals, 
> which is crazy.

yes - it is crazy



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