For unaligned sequences, read.fasta returns a list storing data.
read.phylip is only for aligned data and returns a matrix.
read.fasta.format and read.phylip.format will read in
original coding without any transformation as code.type = NULL
in write.fasta and write.phylip. Suppose these functions
return an object ret, one can write other functions ret2aa()
to post transform the coding and replace ret$org by the results of
ret2aa(ret$org.code).
byrow indicates the data will be store by row or not. Usually,
the default is TRUE. The FALSE is only for advance users
with careful manipulations and for speeding up the bootstraps.
sep can specify a character which is used to split sites in file.
By default, "" denote no character between sites. Only "CODON" id requires
a character to avoid ambiguity