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openvax / pyensembl

Python interface to access reference genome features (such as genes, transcripts, and exons) from Ensembl
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is it possible to find the nearest feature when there is none at the locus #283

Open Cloufield opened 1 year ago

Cloufield commented 1 year ago

Hi , Thanks for the amazing package. I am wondering if there is a function like find_nearest_feature that can query the nearest features (like gene_name) given contig and position when there are no features at the locus. For example, currently gene_names_at_locus(contig, position, end=None, strand=None) only returns none when there are no genes in the locus. It would be extremely helpful if pyensembl could also find the nearest features.