R: Scans databases for a given sequence accession number

where.is.this.acc {seqinr} | R Documentation

## Scans databases for a given sequence accession number

### Description

This function loops over all availabale ACNUC databases to look for a given sequence accession number. This is useful when you have a sequence accession number and you don't know in which database it is present.

### Usage

    where.is.this.acc(acc,  stopAtFirst = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`acc` | An accession number as a string of characters such as `"NC_001416"`.
`stopAtFirst` | Logical. If TRUE, the default, the function stops at the first database where the accession number is found.
`...` | Arguments passed to the function `choosebank`.

### Value

The function resturns invisibly a vector of strings of characters for the names of the ACNUC databases in which the accession number was found.

### Author(s)

J.R. Lobry

### References

`citation("seqinr")`

### See Also

`choosebank` to open a given ACNUC database.

### Examples

      ## Not run: # Need internet connection
      where.is.this.acc("NC_001416") # first found in phever2dna bank (2016-06-01)

    ## End(Not run)

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