R: Gap Characters

is.gap {bio3d} | R Documentation

## 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).

### Note

During alignment, gaps are introduced into sequences that are believed to have undergone deletions or insertions with respect to other sequences in the alignment. These gaps, often referred to as indels, can be represented with ‘NA’, ‘-’ or ‘.’ characters.

This function provides a simple test for the presence of such characters, or indeed any set of user defined characters set by the ‘gap.char’ argument.

### Author(s)

Barry Grant

### 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)

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