add_blast_info: Add information from 'blast_pq()' to the 'tax_table' slot of...

In MiscMetabar: Miscellaneous Functions for Metabarcoding Analysis

Add information from blast_pq() to the tax_table slot of a phyloseq object

Description

Basically a wrapper of blast_pq() with option unique_per_seq = TRUE and score_filter = FALSE.

Add the information to the taxtable

Usage

add_blast_info(
  physeq,
  fasta_for_db,
  silent = FALSE,
  suffix = "blast_info",
  ...
)

Arguments

physeq	(required) a phyloseq-class object obtained using the phyloseq package.
fasta_for_db	path to a fasta file to make the blast database
silent	(logical) If true, no message are printing.
suffix	(character) The suffix to name the new columns. Set the suffix to "" in order to remove any suffix.
...	Additional arguments passed on to blast_pq() function.

Value

A new phyloseq-class object with more information in tax_table based on a blast on a given database

Author(s)

Adrien Taudière

Examples

## Not run: 
add_blast_info(data_fungi_mini,
  fasta_for_db = system.file("extdata", "mini_UNITE_fungi.fasta.gz",
    package = "MiscMetabar"
  )
)

## End(Not run)

MiscMetabar documentation built on June 8, 2026, 5:07 p.m.