dot_blast: Wrapper for the new NCBI BLAST+ tools

Description Usage Arguments

Description

Wrapper for the new NCBI BLAST+ tools

Usage

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.blast(exec, query, db, outfmt = "xml", max_hits = 20, strand = "both",
  ..., intern = FALSE, show_cmd = FALSE, parse = TRUE)

Arguments

query

Query sequences as path to a FASTA file, an XStringSet object, or a character vector.

db

Blast database name (defaults to 'nt' for blastn and 'nr' for the rest).

outfmt

XML or table (default: XML)

max_hits

Maximum number of hits to return. (defaults: 20) Sets the '-max_target_seqs' parameter internally.

strand

Query strand(s) to seach against database.

...

Arguments passed on to the blast commmand line tools.

intern

Set TRUE if no '-out' argument is specified. Captures the blast output in an R character vector.

show_cmd

If TRUE print the constructed command line instead of passing it to system.

parse
program

One of blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastn, or tblastx


gschofl/blastr documentation built on May 17, 2019, 8:52 a.m.