l2n: Convert letters to numbers

In biogram: N-Gram Analysis of Biological Sequences

Description

Converts biological sequence from letter to number notation.

Usage

l2n(seq, seq_type)

Arguments

seq	character vector or matrix representing single sequence.
seq_type	the type of sequence. Can be rna, dna or prot.

Value

a numeric vector or matrix containing converted elements.

See Also

l2n is a wrapper around degenerate.

Inverse function: n2l.

Examples

sample_seq <- c("a", "d", "d", "g", "a", "g", "n", "a", "l")
l2n(sample_seq, "prot")

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