reverse translate

[Lakshmanan Iyer]

Hi,
I found this program on the web. Have not given it a try! 
This looks like what you would like to do.

Primegen is a multiple alignment analysis tool for finding the
least-degenerate, most-degenerate, least-conserved, and most-conserved
regions of protein and nucleic acid multiple alignments, and generating
oligonucleotide primers for these regions. Primegen does not create multiple
alignments, but only analyses alignments created elsewhere. 

http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Registered/Option/primegen.html

-thanks
-laxman

Lakshmanan Iyer, Ph. D.
Computational Biologist
Manager of Collaboration and Training
Computational Biology Group
Bauer Center for Genomics Research
Bauer Laboratory
7 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
www.cgr.harvard.edu
Phone:617-384-7647
Fax: 617-495-2196

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefanie Lager [mailto:stefanielager at fastmail.ca] 
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 8:19 AM
To: emboss at embnet.org
Subject: reverse translate

Is there an EMBOSS (or other UNIX) program to reverse translate
protein sequences to get degenerative primers? I have found the EMBOSS
program backtranslate, but that does not seem to be able to report ALL
possible DNA sequences that can generate a certain protein sequence
i.e.  I can't get degenerative primers from it.

Stefanie
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