new.amasLite: Calculate AMAS conservation

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new.amasLiteR Documentation

Calculate AMAS conservation

Description

Uses the AMAS method (Livingstone & Barton 1993) method to calculate position-wise conservation from a protein multiple sequence alignment. Creates an object of type amasLite, which features a single method: run(alignmentFile).

Usage

new.amasLite()

Details

The run(alignmentFile) method takes the name of a file as its parameter. The file must be a FASTA formatted multiple sequence alignment. The method returns a numerical vector listing the position-wise conservation with respect to the first entry in the alignment.

Value

an object of type amasLite


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