| 6FT(1) | General Commands Manual | 6FT(1) |
6ft - 6-frame translation of a DNA sequence into protein
6ft [ -rs ] seq-library-file
6ft translates all six reading frames of a double-stranded DNA sequence into individual protein sequences. Stop codons are represented by character "O". seq-library-file contains one or several sequences in Pearson/Fasta format.
This program may be used for searching genomic or EST sequence databases with a protein profile. Better results are usually obtained by first converting the protein profile into a frame-search profile, and then searching a 2-frame translation of the DNA sequence database generated with pftools program 2ft, see manual pages of pftool programs ptof and 2ft.
See manual pages of pftools program ptof.
Philipp Bucher
Philipp.Bucher@isrec.unil.ch
| July 1999 | pftools 2.2 |