Import RNA as Biostrings or data.table object — read_rna • biomartr
Description: This function reads an organism specific RNA stored in a defined file format.

# Import RNA as Biostrings or data.table object

Source: `R/read_rna.R`
`read_rna.Rd`

This function reads an organism specific RNA stored in a defined file format.

    read_rna(file, format = "fasta", obj.type = "Biostrings", ...)

## Arguments

file

  a character string specifying the path to the file storing the RNA.

format

  a character string specifying the file format used to store the genome, e.g. `format = "fasta"` (default) or `format = "gbk"`.

obj.type

  a character string specifying the object stype in which the genomic sequence shall be represented. Either as `obj.type = "Biostrings"` (default) or as `obj.type = "data.table"`.

...

  additional arguments that are used by `read.fasta`.

## Value

A data.table storing the gene id in the first column and the corresponding sequence as string in the second column.

## Details

This function takes a string specifying the path to the RNA file of interest as first argument. It is possible to read in different proteome file standards such as fasta or genebank.

## See also

Other rna: `getRNASet()`, `getRNA()`

Other readers: `read_cds()`, `read_genome()`, `read_gff()`, `read_proteome()`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost