Class: Ensembl::Core::Exon

Inherits:
DBConnection
  • Object
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Includes:
Sliceable
Defined in:
lib/ensembl/core/activerecord.rb

Overview

DESCRIPTION

The Exon class describes an exon.

This class uses ActiveRecord to access data in the Ensembl database. See the general documentation of the Ensembl module for more information on what this means and what methods are available.

This class includes the mixin Sliceable, which means that it is mapped to a SeqRegion object and a Slice can be created for objects of this class. See Sliceable and Slice for more information.

USAGE

seq_region = SeqRegion.find(1)
puts seq_region.exons.length

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from Sliceable

#length, #project, #slice, #start, #stop, #strand, #transform

Methods inherited from DBConnection

connect

Instance Method Details

#seq ⇒ Object

DESCRIPTION

The Exon#seq method returns the sequence of the exon.



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# File 'lib/ensembl/core/activerecord.rb', line 674

def seq
	slice = Ensembl::Core::Slice.new(self.seq_region, seq_region_start, seq_region_end, seq_region_strand)
  return slice.seq
end

#stable_id ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/ensembl/core/activerecord.rb', line 668

def stable_id
  return self.exon_stable_id.stable_id
end