Friday, December 15, 2006

Amino Acid Translation

While browsing NCBI's protein section of genome sequences, many of the protein amino acid sequences are in a cryptic one-letter code form, for example:

mapkksttkt

So, in order to make my reading experience a little more enjoyable, I've created a small program to translate that into a more readable sequence form, i.e.:

met- ala- pro- lys- lys-

Executable is available here: http://www.box.net/public/yyfm1c0yz6
Source in C++ is here: http://www.box.net/public/v7sy390g2e

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