[BiO BB] random sequences

Seema Trivedi svtrived at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 17 13:49:36 EST 2005


Thanks for the information.
seema

>From: James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu>
>Reply-To: "The general forum at Bioinformatics.Org" 
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>To: "The general forum at Bioinformatics.Org" 
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>Subject: Re: [BiO BB] random sequences
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:05:49 -0800
>
>Python can do this with about 5 lines if you don't have a polynomial
>distribution and about 8 if you do. Download and install python and run 
>this
>program (you will need to consult the manual to figure out how to run 
>python
>programs--pretty easy though). Work through the "hello world" example to 
>get
>started, then run the following program.
>
>
>from random import choice
>
>seq_len = 100
>choices = ("A","T","G","C")
>
>the_seq = ""
>for abase in xrange(seq_len):
>   the_seq += choice(choices)
>
>print the_seq
>
>
>
>If you have polynomial distributions, its a little more complicated
>
>James
>
>
>On Monday 14 March 2005 10:46 am, Seema Trivedi wrote:
> > Dr. Boris Steipe,
> > I will be highly obliged if you could kindly let me know if there are 
>any
> > softwares which I can use for generation of random sequences of
> > nucleotides. I need to do this with large sequences. Thank you
> > Sorry for the trouble,
> > seema
>
>--
>James Stroud, Ph.D.
>UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
>Box 951570
>Los Angeles, CA 90095
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