read_homer {universalmotif} | R Documentation

## Import HOMER motifs.

### Description

Import HOMER formatted motifs. See http://homer.ucsd.edu/homer/motif/. Assumed to be DNA motifs.

### Usage

    read_homer(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

Heinz S, Benner C, Spann N, Bertolino E, Lin Y, Laslo P, Cheng J, Murre C, Singh H, Glass C (2010). “Simple combinations of lineage-determining transcription factors prime cis-regulatory elements required for macrophage and B cell identities.” Molecular Cell, 38, 576-589.

### See Also

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

### Examples

    homer <- read_homer(system.file("extdata", "homer.txt",
                                    package = "universalmotif"))

[Package universalmotif version 1.0.22 Index]