makeTxDbFromBiomart should check for zero exon genes

Bioconductor / txdbmaker

A set of tools for making TxDb objects from genomic annotations from various sources (e.g. UCSC, Ensembl, and GFF files)

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makeTxDbFromBiomart should check for zero exon genes #5

Open mukhyala opened 6 years ago

mukhyala commented 6 years ago

Since genes, transcripts and exons are fetched independently in makeTxDbFromBiomart, there should be a check for zero exon genes. This could happen when BioMart queries silently (no error) skip exons. Here's a example BioMart query that skips exons.

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