Converts biological sequence from letter to number notation.

l2n(seq, seq_type)

Arguments

seq

character vector or matrix representing single sequence.

seq_type

the type of sequence. Can be rna, dna or prot.

Value

a numeric vector or matrix containing converted elements.

See also

l2n is a wrapper around degenerate.

Inverse function: n2l.

Examples

sample_seq <- c("a", "d", "d", "g", "a", "g", "n", "a", "l") l2n(sample_seq, "prot")
#> [1] 1 3 3 6 1 6 12 1 10