NAME

Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::UTR - A feature representing an untranslated region that is part of a transcription unit

SYNOPSIS

See documentation of methods

DESCRIPTION

A UTR is a Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::ExonI compliant object that is non-coding, and can be either 5' or 3' in a transcript.

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AUTHOR - David Block

Email dblock@gene.pbi.nrc.ca

CONTRIBUTORS

This is based on the Gene Structure scaffolding erected by Hilmar Lapp (hlapp@gmx.net).

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

primary_tag

Title   : primary_tag
Usage   : $tag = $feat->primary_tag()
Function: Returns the primary tag for a feature,
          eg 'utr5prime'.  This method insures that 5prime/3prime information
          is uniformly stored
Returns : a string 
Args    : none