Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• Constructor

• Data Formats and Databases

affyprobeseqread

affysnpannotread

celintensityread

gethmmalignment

multialignwrite

• Data Visualization

• Trace Tools

• Sequence Conversion

• Sequence Utilities

• Sequence Statistics

• Sequence Visualization

• Pairwise Sequence Alignment

• Multiple Sequence Alignment

• Scoring Matrices

• Phylogenetic Tree Tools

• Phylogenetic Tree Methods

• Graph Theory

• Graph Visualization Methods

• Gene Ontology

• Gene Ontology Methods

• Protein Analysis

• Profile Hidden Markov Models

• Microarray File Formats

• Microarray Utilities

• Microarray Data Analysis and Visualization

• Microarray Normalization and Filtering

• HeatMap Methods

• Clustergram Methods

• ExpressionSet Methods

• ExptData Methods

• DataMatrix Methods

• MetaData Methods

• MIAME Methods

• Statistical Learning

• Mass Spectrometry

• Bioanalytics

• Release Notes

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fastainfo - Return information about FASTA file

Syntax

InfoStruct = fastainfo(File)

Description

InfoStruct = fastainfo(File) returns a MATLAB structure containing summary information about a FASTA-formatted file.

Inputs

File

FASTA-formatted file specified by one of the following:

String specifying a file name or path and file name of a FASTA-formatted file. If you specify only a file name, that file must be on the MATLAB search path or in the current folder.
URL pointing to a FASTA-formatted file.
MATLAB character array containing the text of a FASTA-formatted file.

Outputs

InfoStruct

MATLAB structure containing summary information about a FASTA-formatted file. The structure contains the following fields.

Field Description

Filename Name of the file.

FileModDate Modification date of the file.

FileSize Size of the file in bytes.

NumberOfEntries Number of sequence entries in the file.

Examples

Return a summary of the contents of a FASTA file:

info = fastainfo('p53nt.txt')

info = 

           Filename: 'p53nt.txt'
        FileModDate: '31-Mar-2003 11:44:27'
           FileSize: 2764
    NumberOfEntries: 1

See Also

fastaread | fastawrite | fastqinfo | fastqread | fastqwrite | sffinfo | sffread

exptInfo (bioma.ExpressionSet)

exptInfo (bioma.ExpressionSet)

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