Attempt to download and read .ptt files from the NCBI

Description

A utility function that attempts to download and read .ptt file from the NCBI using a GUI interface

Usage

read.NCBI(ftp = NULL)

Arguments

Details

Uses select.list, url and download.file to browse the NCBI ftp site.

After downloading the .ptt file it calls read.ptt

Value

A data frame as returned by read.ptt See STLT2 for details

Author(s)

Michael Watson

References

Tatusov RL, Fedorova ND, Jackson JD, Jacobs AR, Kiryutin B, Koonin EV, Krylov DM, Mazumder R, Mekhedov SL, Nikolskaya AN, Rao BS, Smirnov S, Sverdlov AV, Vasudevan S, Wolf YI, Yin JJ, Natale DA. The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2003 Sep 11;4(1):41.

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/

See Also

read.ptt

Examples

        # browse first to Salmonella typhimurium
        # then select NC_003197.ptt

        #TYPHIM <- read.NCBI()