calcGC {HELP}R Documentation

Calculate GC percent

Description

Function to calculate GC percent from a nucleotide sequence input

Usage

calcGC(x, ...)

Arguments

x characters containing nucleotide sequence (ex: "ATCGGAA") or an object of class ExpressionSet
... Other arguments passed to methods: \item{allow}{ vector of characters specifying what other characters to allow in sequence (default is "N") }

Value

Returns a numerical value (from 0 to 1) indicating the C+G content of the sequence, corresponding to the fraction of (C+G)/(A+T+C+G...). A value of NA is returned if the function encounters an error that prevents proper calculation of GC percent.

Author(s)

Reid F. Thompson (rthompso@aecom.yu.edu)

See Also

calcGC-methods, calcTm

Examples

#demo(pipeline,package="HELP")

calcGC("AAAACGCG")
calcGC(sequence="cXgXcXgXcXgX",allow="X")

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