This is an R package for interfacing with GenBank, GenPept, Embl and IMGT/HLA flat file records. It includes utilities for reading and writing GenBank files, and methods for interacting with annotation and sequence data.
For a sample GenBank record see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/samplerecord.html
For a detailed description of the GenBank feature table format see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/collab/FT
For a description of the EMBL flat file format see ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/doc/usrman.txt.
For a description of the format and conventions of IMGT/HLA flat files see https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/docs/manual.html.