protr (version 1.2-0)

readFASTA: Read Protein Sequences in FASTA Format

Description

Read Protein Sequences in FASTA Format

Usage

readFASTA(file = system.file("protseq/P00750.fasta", package = "protr"), legacy.mode = TRUE, seqonly = FALSE)

Arguments

file

The name of the file which the sequences in fasta format are to be read from. If it does not contain an absolute or relative path, the file name is relative to the current working directory, getwd. The default here is to read the P00750.fasta file which is present in the protseq directory of the protr package.

legacy.mode

If set to TRUE, lines starting with a semicolon ';' are ignored. Default value is TRUE.

seqonly

If set to TRUE, only sequences as returned without attempt to modify them or to get their names and annotations (execution time is divided approximately by a factor 3). Default value is FALSE.

Value

The result character vectorThe three returned argument are just different forms of the same output. If one is interested in a Mahalanobis metric over the original data space, the first argument is all she/he needs. If a transformation into another space (where one can use the Euclidean metric) is preferred, the second returned argument is sufficient. Using A and B is equivalent in the following sense.

Details

This function reads protein sequences in FASTA format.

References

Pearson, W.R. and Lipman, D.J. (1988) Improved tools for biological sequence comparison. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 85: 2444-2448

See Also

See getUniProt for retrieving protein sequences from uniprot.org

Examples

P00750 = readFASTA(system.file('protseq/P00750.fasta', package = 'protr'))