R/mafft.R

In mhahsler/rMSA: Interface for Popular Multiple Sequence Alignment Tools

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# BiostringsTools - Interfaces to several sequence alignment and
# classification tools
# Copyright (C) 2012 Michael Hahsler and Anurag Nagar
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mafft <- function(x, param = "--auto") {
    ## get temp files and change working directory
    wd <- tempdir()
    dir <- getwd()
    temp_file <- basename(tempfile(tmpdir = wd))
    on.exit({
        file.remove(Sys.glob(paste(temp_file, ".*", sep = "")))
        setwd(dir)
    })
    setwd(wd)

    infile <- paste(temp_file, ".in", sep = "")
    outfile <- paste(temp_file, ".aln", sep = "")
    reader <- if (inherits(x, "RNAStringSet")) {
        readRNAMultipleAlignment
    } else if (inherits(x, "DNAStringSet")) {
        readDNAMultipleAlignment
    } else if (inherits(x, "AAStringSet")) {
        readAAMultipleAlignment
    } else {
        stop("Unknown sequence type!")
    }


    writeXStringSet(x, infile, append = FALSE, format = "fasta")

    ## call clustalw (needs to be installed and in the path!)
    system2(
        .findExecutable("mafft"),
        args = c(param, "--clustalout",
        infile, ">", outfile
    ))

    reader(outfile, format = "clustal")
}

mafft_help <- function() {
    system2(.findExecutable("mafft"),
       args = c("--help"))
}