Matching Sequence with Inosines

[Andrew T. Lloyd]

In article <33BA9791.3278 at charlie.cns.iit.edu>, Steven Gendel
<sgendel at charlie.cns.iit.edu> wrote:

> I have a published probe sequence that might be useful for my work.  The
> published sequence has several Inosine residues.  I would like to use
> something like FINDPATTERNS to compare this sequence to several genes in
> GenBank. What symbol should I use with GCG to account for the base
> "specificity" of the Inosines?  My inclination is to use N.  Is this a
> good idea?

I complements UCA.

The IUB/GCG code for ~G is H and according to Appendix III of
GCG 8.0 the complement of H is D.

Use D.

Andrew
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