Cytogenetic bands

Cytogenetic bands for GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38

data(grch37.cytobands)

data(grch38.cytobands)

Format

Cytogenetic bands for standard chromosomes from GRCh37,in the format required by IdeogramTrack. A data.frame with 5 columns:

chrom

Chromosome

chromStart

Starting position for each cytogenetic band

chromEnd

End position for each cytogenetic band

name

Name for each band, e.g. p.36.33

gieStain

Staining pattern

An object of class data.frame with 862 rows and 5 columns.

Source

https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/cytoBand.txt.gz

https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/database/cytoBand.txt.gz

Examples

data(grch37.cytobands)
head(grch37.cytobands)
#>   chrom chromStart chromEnd   name gieStain
#> 1  chr1          0  2300000 p36.33     gneg
#> 2  chr1    2300000  5400000 p36.32   gpos25
#> 3  chr1    5400000  7200000 p36.31     gneg
#> 4  chr1    7200000  9200000 p36.23   gpos25
#> 5  chr1    9200000 12700000 p36.22     gneg
#> 6  chr1   12700000 16200000 p36.21   gpos50

data(grch38.cytobands)
head(grch38.cytobands)
#>   chrom chromStart chromEnd   name gieStain
#> 1  chr1          0  2300000 p36.33     gneg
#> 2  chr1    2300000  5300000 p36.32   gpos25
#> 3  chr1    5300000  7100000 p36.31     gneg
#> 4  chr1    7100000  9100000 p36.23   gpos25
#> 5  chr1    9100000 12500000 p36.22     gneg
#> 6  chr1   12500000 15900000 p36.21   gpos50