Parse a Genebank File and Construct an APE Object

This is the main function for reading file in genebank/ape/equivalent format and generating an instance of the Ape class. String manipulations are used to parse the input ape file. Biostrings and GRanges functions are called to generate DNAStringSet and GRanges objects to store sequence and feature data, respectively. The Ape constructor function is called internally at the end.

Usage

bb_parseape(input_file)

Arguments

input_file

The genebank/ape file to parse and construct into an instance of the Ape class.

Value

An Ape object