getChromSizesFromFasta {GenomicDistributions}R Documentation

Get gene models from a remote or local FASTA file

Description

Get gene models from a remote or local FASTA file

Usage

getChromSizesFromFasta(source, destDir = NULL)

Arguments

source

a string that is either a path to a local or remote FASTA

destDir

a string that indicates the path to the directory where the downloaded FASTA file should be stored

Value

a named vector of sequence lengths

Examples

CElegansUrl = "http://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-103/fasta/caenorhabditis_elegans/dna/Caenorhabditis_elegans.WBcel235.dna.toplevel.fa.gz"
CElegansChromSizes = getChromSizesFromFasta(CElegansUrl)

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