stepB: Step B: Search and Download Sequences

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also

Description

For any given project (see megapteraProj), this step searches the Nucleotide database on GenBank, downloads all sequences and stores them in a postgreSQL database table.

Usage

1
stepB(x)

Arguments

x

an object of class megapteraProj

Details

All accessions are stored under thier species name as appearing in the organism field at GenBank, information about infrageneric ranks is stripped of the taxon names before they are stored in the database.

Value

None. stepB is called for its side effects: (1) strings of DNA sequences with attribute data are stored in a pgSQL database; (2) a log file is written to the current working directory.

Note

The function is under development and the results should always be checked.

Author(s)

Christoph Heibl

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/

See Also

megapteraProj


megaptera documentation built on Jan. 15, 2017, 11:19 p.m.