sangerseqR (version 1.8.2)

read.abif: Read ABIF Files

Description

Reads ABIF sanger sequencing data files. ABIF files are a proprietary binary sanger sequencing chromatogram data file created by Applied Biosystems (see http://home.appliedbiosystems.com/support/software_community/ ABIF_File_Format.pdf). The file is read and parsed into an abif class object. This method is based on the read.abif function in the seqinr package available on CRAN.

Usage

read.abif(filename)

Arguments

filename

Location of the file.

Value

• abif s4 object

References

Charif, D. and Lobry, J.R. (2007) SeqinR 1.0-2: a contributed package to teh R project for statistical computing devoted to biological sequences retrieval and analysis. Structural approches to sequenc eevolution: Molecules, networks, populations. pp. 207-232.

See Also

read.scf, readsangerseq, abif

Examples

hetab1 <- read.abif(system.file("extdata",
                                "heterozygous.ab1",
                                package = "sangerseqR"))
str(hetab1)