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A very common task for anyone involved in genetics is the manipulation of DNA or RNA sequences. I need to find the reverse compliment of sequences all the time, and I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of a simple, robust tool to do that – most require strictly formatted sequences, use Java applets which take ages to load, and are generally faffy.

I thought I’d do something about this, so I made my own:
http://www.tallphil.co.uk/bioinformatics/sequences/

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Rather than sitting on my hard disk getting dusty, I thought I should start publishing the bioinformatics scripts that I’ve written over the past few years of my PhD.

The first to go up is a Perl script called “Genome RE Sites” – it searches a genome of your choice for a restriction endonuclease recognition site and outputs the co-ordinates of all cut sites.

[ Update ] : You can find an online version of this tool here.

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