diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f9eba99..4ac95a6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ Description: The ability to efficiently represent and manipulate genomic
 	intervals. Specialized containers for representating and manipulating
 	short alignments against a reference genome are defined in the
 	GenomicAlignments package.
-Version: 1.15.12
+Version: 1.15.13
 Author: P. Aboyoun, H. Pages and M. Lawrence
 Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer@bioconductor.org>
 biocViews: Genetics, Sequencing, HighThroughputSequencing, Annotation
 Depends: R (>= 2.10), methods, BiocGenerics (>= 0.7.7),
-	IRanges (>= 1.21.13), XVector (>= 0.3.2)
+	IRanges (>= 1.21.14), XVector (>= 0.3.2)
 Imports: methods, utils, stats, BiocGenerics, IRanges
 LinkingTo: IRanges, XVector
 Suggests: AnnotationDbi (>= 1.21.1), AnnotationHub,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index e7d4508..b73c61d 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ exportMethods(
     findOverlaps, countOverlaps, overlapsAny, subsetByOverlaps,
     precede, follow, nearest, distance, distanceToNearest,
     map,
-    encodeOverlaps
+    encodeOverlaps,
+    tile
 )
 
 
diff --git a/R/tile-methods.R b/R/tile-methods.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6c10ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/tile-methods.R
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+### =========================================================================
+### "tile" methods
+### -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+###
+
+setMethod("tile", "GenomicRanges", function(x, n, width) {
+  sn <- seqnames(x)
+  strand <- strand(x)
+  x <- ranges(x)
+  tiles <- callGeneric()
+  gr <- GRanges(rep(sn, elementLengths(tiles)), unlist(tiles),
+                rep(strand, elementLengths(tiles)))
+  relist(gr, tiles)
+})