[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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