i googled on "read genbank with R".  drilling on one of the responses, i
found that the "ape" package addresses this issue; this is available on
CRAN.

read.GenBank {ape}R DocumentationRead DNA Sequences from GenBank via
InternetDescription

This function connects to the GenBank database, and reads nucleotide
sequences using accession numbers given as arguments.
Usage

read.GenBank(access.nb, seq.names = access.nb,
             species.names = TRUE, as.character = FALSE)

Argumentsaccess.nba vector of mode character giving the accession numbers.
seq.namesthe names to give to each sequence; by default the accession
numbers are used.species.namesa logical indicating whether to attribute the
species names to the returned object.as.charactera logical controlling
whether to return the sequences as an object of class "DNAbin" (the
default).Details

The function uses the site http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ from where the
sequences are downloaded.


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hu, Bin <binhu@lanl.gov> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone point me some examples of loading a local genbank file and
> query its features? Thanks.
>
> I just started learning Bioconductor and trying to get myself familiar
> with its packages. I googled but only found ways to download genbank from
> Internet.
>
> Bin
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