Get reverse complement of DNA sequence

Source: R/sequence.R

Takes a DNA sequence string and returns its reverse complement.

grevcomp(seq)

Arguments

seq

A character vector containing DNA sequences (using A,C,G,T). Ignores other characters and NA values.

Value

A character vector of the same length as the input, containing the reverse complement sequences

Examples

grevcomp("ACTG") # Returns "CAGT"
#> [1] "CAGT"
grevcomp(c("ACTG", "GGCC")) # Returns c("CAGT", "GGCC")
#> [1] "CAGT" "GGCC"
grevcomp(c("ACTG", NA, "GGCC")) # Returns c("CAGT", NA, "GGCC")
#> [1] "CAGT" NA     "GGCC"