read_jaspar {universalmotif} | R Documentation

## Import JASPAR motifs.

### Description

Import JASPAR formatted motifs. See http://jaspar.genereg.net/. Can be either DNA, RNA, or AA motifs.

### Usage

    read_jaspar(file, skip = 0)

### Arguments

`file` | `character(1)` File name.
`skip` | `numeric(1)` If not zero, will skip however many desired lines in the file before starting to read.

### Value

`list` universalmotif objects.

### Author(s)

Benjamin Jean-Marie Tremblay, b2tremblay@uwaterloo.ca

### References

Khan A, Fornes O, Stigliani A, Gheorghe M, Castro-Mondragon J, van der Lee R, Bessy A, Cheneby J, Kulkarni SR, Tan G, Baranasic D, Arenillas D, Sandelin A, Vandepoele K, Lenhard B, Ballester B, Wasserman W, Parcy F, Mathelier A (2018). “JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework.” Nucleic Acids Research, 46, D260-D266.

### See Also

Other read_motifs: `read_cisbp`, `read_homer`, `read_matrix`, `read_meme`, `read_motifs`, `read_transfac`, `read_uniprobe`

### Examples

    jaspar <- read_jaspar(system.file("extdata", "jaspar.txt",
                                      package = "universalmotif"))

[Package universalmotif version 1.0.22 Index]