EntrezDownload: Download Public Sequence Data

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

View source: R/EntrezDownload.R

Description

Utility for downloading sequence data from NCBI for a user specified group of organisms

Usage

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EntrezDownload(txid, fasta_dir, minimumSeq = 350, maximumSeq = NULL)

Arguments

txid

NCBI taxon ID. See https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and manual

fasta_dir

Place to store fasta sequences. Must end with */fasta/

minimumSeq

Minimum number of sequences a species must have to bother downloading defaults to 350

maximumSeq

Maximum number of sequences to download per species. Useful for testing scripts and troubleshooting TOAST/BUSCO

Value

Returns graphic of missing data based on defined threshold

Author(s)

Dustin J Wcisel, djwcisel@ncsu.edu

James Thomas Howard, jthowar3@ncsu.edu

Jeffrey A Yoder, jayoder@ncsu.edu

Alex Dornburg, dornburgalex@gmail.com

Examples

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SequenceDownload(txid = 9721, fasta_dir = "path/to/fasta/", minimumSeq = 350)

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