Locus

class hail.representation.Locus(contig, position)

An object that represents a location in the genome.

Parameters:

• contig (str or int) – chromosome identifier
• position (int) – chromosomal position (1-indexed)

Attributes

contig	Chromosome identifier.
position	Chromosomal position (1-based).

Methods

__init__	x.__init__(…) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature
parse	Parses a locus object from a CHR:POS string.

contig

Chromosome identifier. :rtype: str

static parse(string)

Parses a locus object from a CHR:POS string.

Examples

>>> l1 = Locus.parse('1:101230')
>>> l2 = Locus.parse('X:4201230')

Return type:Locus

position

Chromosomal position (1-based). :rtype: int