Accepts region strings ("chr1:100-200", "1_100_200"), character vectors of
such strings, or data.frames with chrom/start/end columns. Returns a
GRanges object.
Examples
regions <- c("chr1:100-200", "chr1:300-400")
asGranges(regions = regions)
#> GRanges object with 2 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
#> seqnames ranges strand
#> <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle>
#> [1] chr1 100-200 *
#> [2] chr1 300-400 *
#> -------
#> seqinfo: 1 sequence from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths