getFASTAname {SLGI}R Documentation

Obtain sequence name from FASTA object

Description

Extract the name of a sequence from a FASTA object that created by readFASTA function from Biostrings package.

Usage

getFASTAname(Fobj)

Arguments

Fobj is a FASTA object created by readFASTA function from Biostrings package.

Details

The function gets the first string between ">" and space the "desc" element of the Fobj, which is the names of the sequence.

Value

A character string.

Author(s)

Z. Jiang

See Also

readFASTA

Examples

f <- gzfile(file.path(.path.package("SLGI"), "extdata/orf_trans.fasta.gz"), open = "rt")
library(Biostrings)
yeastF <- readFASTA(f)
sapply(yeastF[1:5],getFASTAname)

[Package SLGI version 1.2.0 Index]