Reads a FASTA (or similarly formatted) file and returns all the amino acids as a list.
Usage
get.AASeq(filelocation)
Arguments
filelocation
The location of the file being read.
Value
An ordered list of amino acids in the protein. Each element of the list represents an amino acid.
Details
The first line in the file being processed must begin with a ">". If the ending character in the file is a "*" (indicating a terminator -- as is common in the COSMIC database), this character is excluded from the sequence as well.