pybedtools.bedtool.BedTool.liftover¶

BedTool.liftover(chainfile, unmapped=None, liftover_args='')[source]¶

Returns a new BedTool of the liftedOver features, saving the unmapped ones as unmapped. If unmapped is None, then discards the unmapped features.

liftover_args is a string of additional args that is passed, verbatim, to liftOver.

Needs liftOver from UCSC to be on the path and a chainfile downloaded from UCSC.

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