R: Read immunoglobulin sequences

readIgFasta {tigger} | R Documentation

## Read immunoglobulin sequences

### Description

`readIgFasta` reads a fasta-formatted file of immunoglobulin (Ig) sequences and returns a named vector of those sequences.

### Usage

    readIgFasta(fasta_file, strip_down_name = TRUE, force_caps = TRUE)

### Arguments

`fasta_file` | fasta-formatted file of immunoglobuling sequences.
`strip_down_name` | if `TRUE`, will extract only the allele name from the strings fasta file's sequence names.
`force_caps` | if `TRUE`, will force nucleotides to uppercase.

### Value

Named vector of strings respresenting Ig alleles.

### See Also

writeFasta to do the inverse.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    # germlines <- readIgFasta("ighv.fasta")

    ## End(Not run)

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