translatePattern {CRISPRseek} | R Documentation

## translate pattern from IUPAC Extended Genetic Alphabet to regular expression

### Description

translate pattern containing the IUPAC nucleotide ambiguity codes to regular expression. For example,Y->[C|T], R-> [A|G], S-> [G|C], W-> [A|T], K-> [T|U|G], M-> [A|C], B-> [C|G|T], D-> [A|G|T], H-> [A|C|T], V-> [A|C|G] and N-> [A|C|T|G].

### Usage

    translatePattern(pattern)

### Arguments

`pattern` | a character vector with the IUPAC nucleotide ambiguity codes

### Value

a character vector with the pattern represented as regular expression

### Author(s)

Lihua Julie Zhu

### Examples

    	  pattern1 <- "AACCNWMK"
    	  translatePattern(pattern1)

[Package CRISPRseek version 1.32.0 Index]