Given a DNA sequence, the function generates the reverse complement of the sequence and returns it.
Usage
reverse_complement(sequence)
Arguments
- sequence
A character string containing the DNA sequence to be reversed and complemented
Value
A character string containing the reverse complement of the input DNA sequence
Examples
sequence <- "ATCGAGCTAGCTAGCTAGCTAGCT"
reverse_complement(sequence)
#> [1] "AGCTAGCTAGCTAGCTAGCTCGAT"
# [1] "AGCTAGCTAGCTAGCTAGCTCGAT"