Import FASTA file into R

This function is a wrapper to Biostrings::readDNAStringSet() function to import FASTA genome sequence file and simultaneously convert long chromosome names (e.g. 1 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCm38:1:1:195471971:1 REF) to short names (e.g. 1)

importFASTA(con)

Arguments

con

Path to FASTA file

Value

Imported DNAStringSet object

Author

Fursham Hamid