I have always wondered how to format my nucleotide sequence in blocks of ten. Any ideas?
You can try an online sequence converter like http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/sfc/readseq/
For example, the Genbank format will give you the output you want.
I use macro in the TextPad (http://www.textpad.com/). Is a very good text editor for edit DNA sequencies.
You can try an online sequence converter like http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/sfc/readseq/
For example, the Genbank format will give you the output you want.
You can use fold command in linux and create a file which you can easily view in MSword. for example:
fold -w 10 seq_input_file.fa > newfile_10blocks.fa
-w sets the character limit to 10 here.
Hi Zahra
Use free sequence format converters as suggested above...they will be convenient
Thank you Ricardo, Margarida and Shabhonam.
I used http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/sfc/readseq/ and it worked.
If you want to do it specifically in MS Word in the future, you can search for:
^$^$^$^$^$^$^$^$^$^$
to search for a string of any ten letters, or turn wildcards on and search for
[acgtnACGTN]{10}
to search for a,c,g,t,n,A,C,G,T,N occuring in sets of 10, and replace with
^&
with a space after the "^&" to replace with the same pattern, with a space at the end. This won't give you the line numbers etc that some other sequence formats will be giving you though. You could replace with ^&^l to get the blocks of 10 all on different lines, if that's what you meant.
The word-addin "Molecular BioComputing Suite" (MBCS.dot) should do the job too (not sure if it works still with office 2013).
Source: Molecular BioComputing Suite: A Word Processor Add-In for the Analysis and
Manipulation of Nucleic Acid and Protein Sequence Data.
BioTechniques 31:1306-1313 (December 2001)
I wrote an R package that does this:
https://github.com/leipzig/asciiruler
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