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>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Clark <duncan at genesys.demon.co.uk> writes:
Duncan> Hi Folks, I ran into a problem the other day. I wanted to
Duncan> locate a gene in a newly sequenced genome (in the public
Duncan> domain but not totally finished such that orfs are
Duncan> available) that a TIGR online blast search gave homology
Duncan> to. The blast search gave the location within the genome
Duncan> but the genome is only available (at present) as one long
Duncan> ascii file with no numbering. Have you ever tried to find
Duncan> base 1,600,000 in a 3,000,000 bases? Is their any software
Duncan> out there that will renumber it or a macro for MS Word
Duncan> that will do it?
[..]
Duncan> So any software that will import one long sequence,
Duncan> preferably free (running under windows or a Mac emulator)
Duncan> 'cso I only need to do this once in a blue moon.
I'd use a text editor rather than Word. One Windows, something like NTEmacs,
Textpad or Programmers' File Editor (free, shareware and free, respectively).
Eg. Textpad: Search|Goto|[line|column|page|byte|bookmark]
If you read it in as acsii, goto byte 1,600,000. The limit on file size is
just memory, so you can open a big file. You could also linewrap at, say,
100 characters and goto line 160,000.
For a more elegant solution I'd knock out a Perl script
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