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+++ b/count_gff_features.py	Mon Jul 28 11:56:10 2014 -0400
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# This tool takes a gff file as input and counts the number of features in it.
+
+import sys, fileinput
+from galaxy import eggs
+from galaxy.datatypes.util.gff_util import GFFReaderWrapper
+from bx.intervals.io import GenomicInterval
+
+# Get args.
+input_file = sys.argv[1:]
+
+# Count features.
+count = 0
+for feature in GFFReaderWrapper( fileinput.FileInput( input_file ), fix_strand=True ):
+    if isinstance( feature, GenomicInterval ):
+        count += 1
+
+print count
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