Find the distance to the nearest genomic feature

For a given query set of genomic regions, and a given feature set of regions, this function will return the distance for each query region to its closest feature. It ignores strand and returns the distance as positive or negative, depending on whether the feature is upstream or downstream

featureDistanceDistribution(query, features)

Arguments

query	A GRanges or GRangesList object with query sets
features	A GRanges object with features to test distance to

Details

This function is similar to the bioconductor distanceToNearest function, but returns negative values for downstream distances instead of absolute values. This allows you to assess the relative location.