IUBio

6-frame EST translation

Chris Botka botka at CGL.UCSF.EDU
Thu Sep 24 19:15:20 EST 1998


Jonathan Epstein wrote on Thu, 24 Sep 1998:
> Does anyone have a working program that can compare
> mass-spec ion sets obtained from an LCQ instrument against the
> dbEST database?
>
> This seems to require a 6-frame translation of dbEST, preferably in
> FASTA format. I realize that many of the translated products will
> be bogus.
>
> Does anyone have software to perform this translation? The
> preferred target platform is a DEC alpha running Unix, but Wintel
> 95/NT and SGI Irix are also possible candidates.
>
> TIA,
>
> - Jonathan

I believe the SEALS package has a program called wimklein that will  
do this for you.  It's all perl, so it should work for you.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Walker/SEALS

Chris

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