gcContent {R453Plus1Toolbox} | R Documentation

## Calculate The Overall GC-Content

### Description

This function calculates the GC-content summarized over all sequences.

### Usage

      gcContent(object)

### Arguments

`object` | An object of class DNAStringSet, ShortRead or SFFContainer.

### Details

The GC-content is calculated as follows:
(#G + #C / #G + #C + #A + #T) * 100
Where #G is the number of base G in all sequences.

### Value

A numeric vector of length one containing the overall GC-content.

### Author(s)

Christian Ruckert

[Package R453Plus1Toolbox version 1.44.0 Index]