Read a GenBank file — read_gbk • rgbio

Reads one or more GenBank records and returns selected components in either Bioconductor or tidy format.

Usage

read_gbk(
  file,
  format = "bioconductor",
  sequences = TRUE,
  features = TRUE,
  metadata = TRUE,
  records = NULL,
  validate = TRUE
)

Arguments

file: Character path to a GenBank file.
format: Output format. One of "bioconductor" or "tidy".
sequences: Logical; include sequence data.
features: Logical; include feature annotations.
metadata: Logical; include record metadata.
records: Integer indices or character accession/name selectors.
validate: Logical; validate parsed records.

Value

A variable object based on selected components. Returns either a single object or a named list with sequences, features, and/or metadata.