bio3d (version 2.2-4)

pfam: Download Pfam FASTA Sequence Alignment

Description

Downloads FASTA sequence alignment from the Pfam database.

Usage

pfam(id, alignment = "seed", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

id

the Pfam familiy identifier (e.g ‘Piwi’) or accession (e.g. ‘PF02171’).

alignment

the alignment type. Allowed values are: ‘seed’, ‘ncbi’, ‘full’, ‘metagenomics’.

verbose

logical, if TRUE details of the download process is printed.

Value

A ‘fasta’ object with the following components:

ali

an alignment character matrix with a row per sequence and a column per equivalent aminoacid/nucleotide.

ids

sequence names as identifiers.

call

the matched call.

Details

This is a basic function to download a multiple sequence alignment for a protein family from the Pfam database.

References

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

See Also

read.fasta, hmmer, get.seq, uniprot

Examples

## Not run: 
# # PFAM server connection required - testing excluded
# 
# aln <- pfam("piwi")
# aln <- pfam("PF02171")
# 
# seq <- get.seq("1rx2_A", outfile = tempfile())
# hmm <- hmmer(seq, type="hmmscan", db="pfam")
# aln <- pfam(hmm$acc[1])
# ## End(Not run)