Write FASTA Formated Sequences

Usage

write.fasta(alignment=NULL, ids=NULL, seqs=alignment$ali, file, append = FALSE)

Arguments

alignment
an alignment list object with id and ali components, similar to that generated by read.fasta.
ids
a vector of sequence names to serve as sequence identifers
seqs
an sequence or alignment character matrix or vector with a row per sequence
file
name of output file.
append
logical, if TRUE output will be appended to file; otherwise, it will overwrite the contents of file.

Description

Write aligned or un-aligned sequences to a FASTA format file.

Value

Called for its effect.

References

Grant, B.J. et al. (2006) Bioinformatics 22, 2695--2696.

Note

For a description of FASTA format see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blastcgihelp.shtml.

Examples

# PDB server connection required - testing excluded ## Read a PDB file pdb <- read.pdb("1bg2")
Note: Accessing on-line PDB file
## Extract sequence from PDB file s <- aa321(pdb$seqres) # SEQRES a <- aa321(pdb$atom[pdb$calpha,"resid"]) # ATOM ## Write simple fasta file #write.fasta( seqs=seqbind(s,a), file="eg.fa") #write.fasta( ids=c("seqres","atom"), seqs=seqbind(s,a), file="eg.fa" ) outfile1 = file.path(tempdir(), "eg.fa") write.fasta(list( id=c("seqres"),ali=s ), file = outfile1) write.fasta(list( id=c("atom"),ali=a ), file = outfile1, append=TRUE) ## Align seqres and atom records #seqaln(seqbind(s,a)) ## Read alignment aln<-read.fasta(system.file("examples/kif1a.fa",package="bio3d")) ## Cut all but positions 130 to 245 aln$ali=aln$ali[,130:245] outfile2 = file.path(tempdir(), "eg2.fa") write.fasta(aln, file = outfile2) invisible( cat("\nSee the output files:", outfile1, outfile2, sep="\n") )
See the output files: /tmp/RtmpTDihxb/eg.fa /tmp/RtmpTDihxb/eg2.fa

See also

read.fasta, read.fasta.pdb

Author

Barry Grant