mw: Compute the molecular weight of a protein sequence
Description
This function calculates the molecular weight of a protein sequence. It is calculated as the sum of the mass of each amino acid using the scale available on Compute pI/Mw tool.
Usage
mw(seq, monoisotopic = FALSE)
Arguments
seq
An amino-acids sequence
monoisotopic
A logical value 'TRUE' or 'FALSE' indicating if monoisotopic weights of amino-acids should be used
Details
The molecular weight is the sum of the masses of each atom constituting a molecule. The molecular weight is directly related to the length of the amino acid sequence and is expressed in units called daltons (Da). In Peptides the function mw computes the molecular weight using the same formulas and weights as ExPASy's "compute pI/mw" tool (Gasteiger et al., 2005).
References
Gasteiger, E., Hoogland, C., Gattiker, A., Wilkins, M. R., Appel, R. D., & Bairoch, A. (2005). Protein identification and analysis tools on the ExPASy server. In The proteomics protocols handbook (pp. 571-607). Humana Press. Chicago