Gene Shpaer (gene at apldbio.com) wrote:
> I need a program (Unix, source code) which will
> 1. Read FASTA-formatted file with nucleotide sequences
> 2. Perform 6-frame translation
> 3. Output the protein sequences in the FASTA format.
> Of course, I can convert from-to different formats using
> readseq, so not only FASTA, but other formats are o'k.
Hello Gene
you can try 'n2a', available by anonymous ftp
from trog.mbb.sfu.ca in the /pub/n2a directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3158 Apr 16 1994 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 210 Apr 9 1994 README
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 25819 Apr 16 1994 n2a-1.15.tar.Z
the README has:
> n2a is a unix filter that translates nucleic acid sequences to
> ammino acid sequences. It has been tested on a Sun SPARCstation 2
> running SunOS 4.1, a DEC 3100 running Ultrix 4.2, and on
> linux and SGI machines.
The software is from: Ian Leader (leader at trog.mbb.sfu.ca)
francis
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