drop_sequences: Remove Sequences of a DNAbin list object

In delimtools: Helper Functions for Species Delimitation Analysis

Remove Sequences of a DNAbin list object

Description

drop_sequences() removes sequences of a FASTA file by its names.

Usage

drop_sequences(dna, identifier, drop = TRUE)

Arguments

dna	a DNAbin list object.
identifier	a character vector containing sequence names.
drop	Logical. If TRUE, sequence names in identifier will be dropped from dna. If FALSE, sequence names absent in identifier will be dropped instead.

Details

drop_sequences() relies on exact match between sequence names within a fasta file and identifier argument.

Value

an object of class DNAbin.

Author(s)

Pedro S. Bittencourt

Examples

# Create a vector of sequence names to drop or keep.
identifier <- names(geophagus)[1:3]

# Remove sequences listed in identifier
drop_sequences(geophagus, identifier, drop = TRUE)

# Remove sequences not listed in identifier
drop_sequences(geophagus, identifier, drop = FALSE)

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