spider (version 1.5.1)

seeBarcode: Create illustrative barcodes

Description

This function plots an illustrative barcode consisting of vertical bands in four colours corresponding to the DNA bases adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thiamine (T).

Usage

seeBarcode(seq, col = c("green", "blue", "black", "red"))

Value

Plots an illustrative barcode.

Arguments

seq

A single sequence of class `DNAbin'.

col

A character vector of length 4 giving colours to represent A, G, C and T respectively.

Author

Samuel Brown <[e-mail]>

Details

Green, blue, black and red are the standard colours representing A, G, C and T respectively.

Examples

graphics::layout(matrix(1:6, ncol=1))
graphics::par(mar=c(0.5, 0, 0.5, 0))
data(woodmouse)
seeBarcode(woodmouse[1,])
seeBarcode(woodmouse[1,], col=c("pink", "orange", "steelblue", "yellow"))
seeBarcode(woodmouse[1,], col=c("black", "white", "white", "black"))
apply(woodmouse[1:3,], MARGIN=1, FUN=seeBarcode)