I have a .bed file data
that is obtained from concatenating of two .bed files. It's been done through BEDOPS --everything option so, all four columns (chrstartendgene_ID) are preserved nicely. For each gene ID, there are a few rows of coordinates that may or may not be overlapped.
I am looking for to merge the coordinates of each gene separately, so that if they have at least one overlap, they will merge, and if not, they will remain separate. Merging should not implement between all genes.
I've actually tried bedtools merge and BEDOPS merge, but could not make it because they see the whole file as one.
> data
chr1 206721 208928 ENSG00000951
chr1 207322 208145 ENSG00000951
chr1 312006 314918 ENSG00000885
chr1 312077 312277 ENSG00000885
chr1 313423 314611 ENSG00000885
chr1 315128 315716 ENSG00000885
chr1 235826 238431 ENSG00000082
chr1 242929 244929 ENSG00000627
chr1 247107 249107 ENSG00000627
chr1 249284 252043 ENSG00000627
The expected output would be like this:
> data.output
chr1 206721 208928 ENSG00000951
chr1 312006 314918 ENSG00000885
chr1 315128 315716 ENSG00000885
chr1 242929 244929 ENSG00000627
chr1 247107 249107 ENSG00000627
chr1 249284 252043 ENSG00000627
Thank you.