loadGenome: Load downloaded whole genome FASTA into a GenomicRanges...

In jeffbhasin/genomesyncr: genomesyncr: Download, Synchronize, and Parse UCSC Genome Browser Tables from R

Description

After downloading the FASTA for a genome using syncFasta, this function loads all chromosomes into a DNAStringSet object.

Usage

  loadGenome(genome, local)

Arguments

genome	The UCSC string specific to the genome to be downloaded (e.g. "hg19", "hg19", "mm10", etc)
local	The root of a local directory where all files downloaded from UCSC are stored

Value

A DNAStringSet object with one sequence per chromosome in UCSC's FASTA release for the given genome.

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