stranslate (1)

stranslate [-options] <seqfile>

This manual page documents briefly the stranslate command.

stranslate is a program that creates a file of all possible protein ORFs, given an input nucleic acid sequence.

Available options:

-a

Translate in full, with stops; no individual ORFs.

-h

Help; show brief usage and version info.

-l <minlen>

Report only ORFs greater than minlen (default 20).

-m

Require ORFs to start with AUG/Met.

-o <outfile>

Save results in output file.

-q

Quiet; silence banner, for piping or redirection.

-s <stopchar>

With -a, set stop character to <stopchar>.

--tetrahymena

Use the Tetrahymena/Oxytricha genetic code.

--watson

Only do the top strand (frames 0/1/2).

--crick

Only do the bottom strand (frames 3/4/5).

The original program name is translate. It was renamed to stranslate to avoid conflict with another program of the same name.

afetch(1), alistat(1), compalign(1), compstruct(1), revcomp(1), seqsplit(1), seqstat(1), sfetch(1), shuffle(1), sindex(1), sreformat(1), weight(1).

Sean Eddy
HHMI/Department of Genetics
Washington University School of Medicine
4444 Forest Park Blvd., Box 8510
St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Phone: 1-314-362-7666
FAX  : 1-314-362-2157
Email: [email protected]

This manual page was written by Nelson A. de Oliveira <[email protected]>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).