liftOver

Changing genomic coordinate systems with rtracklayer::liftOver

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.36.0

The liftOver facilities developed in conjunction with the UCSC browser track infrastructure are available for transforming data in GRanges formats. This is illustrated here with an image of the EBI/NHGRI GWAS catalog that is, as of May 10 2017, distributed with coordinates defined by NCBI build hg38.

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("liftOver")