basecontent {matchprobes} | R Documentation

## Obtain the ATCG content of a gene

### Description

This function accepts a character string representing the base sequence of the DNA for a gene and computes the counts of each base.

### Usage

    basecontent(seq)

### Arguments

`seq` | Character vector.

### Details

Each element of `x` is separately decomposed into its base sequence components.

### Value

A matrix with 4 columns and `length(x)` rows. The columns are names `A`, `C`, `T`, `G`, and the values in each column are the counts of the corresponding bases in the elements of `x`.
The elements of `x` can be in upper case, lower case or mixed.

### Author(s)

R. Gentleman, W. Huber

### See Also

`complementSeq`,`reverseSeq`

### Examples

     v<-c("AAACT", "GGGTT", "ggAtT")
     basecontent(v)

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