Package MGRASTer is a wrapper for R language access to the API of the MG-RAST metagenome annotation engine, part of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Systems Biology Knowledge Base (KBase).
See: http://api.metagenomics.anl.gov and: http://metagenomics.anl.gov and: http://kbase.us
Key components are the functions: call.MGRAST() parse.MGRAST() doc.MGRAST()