[EMBOSS] Sixpack/transeq frame translation

Peter Rice pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Wed Jun 20 13:20:59 UTC 2007


Yogi Sundaravadanam wrote:
> Sixpack/transeq translations don’t match BLAST translation. This is
> giving me such grief.  After some research, I found out that there’s an
> –alternate option in ‘transeq’ that translate the nucleic sequence to a
> peptide, the BLAST way. Is it possible to do the same for Sixpack? 

I am not sure what you mean by "BLAST translation".

Do you mean the reverse frames are numbered differently? We followed the 
convention used by the Staden package.

Would a -alternative option be useful in sixpack?

regards,

Peter Rice



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