read.abif {sangerseqR} | R Documentation

## Read ABIF Files

### Description

Reads ABIF sanger sequencing data files. ABIF files are a proprietary binary sanger sequencing chromatogram data file created by Applied Biosystems (see http://home.appliedbiosystems.com/support/software_community/ABIF_File_Format.pdf). The file is read and parsed into an `abif` class object. This method is based on the read.abif function in the seqinr package available on CRAN.

### Usage

    read.abif(filename)

### Arguments

`filename` | Location of the file.

### Value

`abif` s4 object

### References

Charif, D. and Lobry, J.R. (2007) SeqinR 1.0-2: a contributed package to teh R project for statistical computing devoted to biological sequences retrieval and analysis. Structural approches to sequenc eevolution: Molecules, networks, populations. pp. 207-232.

### See Also

`read.scf`, `readsangerseq`, `abif`

### Examples

    hetab1 <- read.abif(system.file("extdata",
                                    "heterozygous.ab1",
                                    package = "sangerseqR"))
    str(hetab1)

[Package sangerseqR version 1.16.0 Index]