readFASTA: fasta sequence file parser adapted from (an older version of)...
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readFASTA

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fasta sequence file parser adapted from (an older version of) `Biostrings`

fasta sequence file parser adapted from (an older version of) Biostrings

readFASTA(
  file,
  checkComments = TRUE,
  strip.descs = TRUE,
  split.desc = "",
  grepID = FALSE
)

`file`	file with sequence(s) in fasta format
`checkComments`	remove information after a semi-colon ; in fasta header
`strip.descs`	split header at a pattern in argument `split.desc` and store in returned structure as `details`
`split.desc`	pattern to split header into description and details with argument `strip.descs`
`grepID`	use ID in description field as names of sequence list.