bio3d (version 2.2-4)

is.gap: Gap Characters

Description

Test for the presence of gap characters.

Usage

is.gap(x, gap.char = c("-", "."))

Arguments

x

an R object to be tested. Typically a sequence vector or sequence/structure alignment object as returned from seqaln, pdbaln etc.

gap.char

a character vector containing the gap character types to test for.

Value

Returns a logical vector with the same length as the input vector, or the same length as the number of columns present in an alignment input object ‘x’. In the later case TRUE elements corresponding to ‘gap.char’ matches in any alignment column (i.e. gap containing columns).

References

Grant, B.J. et al. (2006) Bioinformatics 22, 2695--2696.

See Also

gap.inspect, read.fasta, read.fasta.pdb, seqaln, pdbaln

Examples

is.gap( c("G",".","X","-","G","K","S","T") )

## Not run: 
# aln <- read.fasta( system.file("examples/kif1a.fa",
#                    package = "bio3d") )
# 
# ##- Print only non-gap positions (i.e. no gaps in any sequence)
# aln$ali[, !is.gap(aln) ]
# 
# ##- Mask any existing gaps with an "X"
# xaln <- aln
# xaln$ali[ is.gap(xaln$ali) ]="X"
# 
# ##- Read a new PDB and align its sequence to the existing masked alignment
# pdb <- read.pdb( "1mkj" )
# seq2aln(pdbseq(pdb), xaln, id = "1mkj")
# ## End(Not run)