Interpol (version 1.3.1)

AAdescriptor: AAdescriptor: Descriptor encoding of amino acids

Description

Encodes amino acids into numerical values using descriptors.

Usage

AAdescriptor(data, descriptor = 151, normalize = 0)

Arguments

data

vector of protein sequences (as characters)

descriptor

descriptor to be used (range 1-532)

normalize

0: no normalization; 1:[-1,1]; 2:[0,1]

Value

returns the encoded (and normalized) amino acid sequences.

Details

References

Heider D., Hauke S., Pyka M., Kessler D. Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry 2010, 3:15-24

Kawashima, S.; Ogata, H.; Kanehisa, M. Nucleic Acids Res 1999, 27:368.

See Also

Examples

	#### Amino acid sequence
	a = c("MEGHIK", "MILIK")

	#### encoding of sequence a with descriptor 151 and without normalization
	b = AAdescriptor(a, 151, 0)