1BP_FLANKS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation BP_FLANKS(1)
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6 flanks - finding flanking sequences for a variant in a sequence
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10 flanks --position POS [-p POS ...] [--flanklen INT]
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14 This script allows you to extract a subsequence around a region of
15 interest from an existing sequence. The output if fasta formatted
16 sequence entry where the header line contains additional information
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20 The script takes one unnamed argument which be either a file name in
21 the local file system or a nucleotide sequence accession number.
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23 -p Position uses simple nucleotide sequence feature table
24 --position notation to define the region of interest, typically a
25 SNP or microsatellite repeat around which the flanks are
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28 There can be more than one position option or you can
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35 The optional id is the name you want to call the new
36 sequence. If it not given in joins running number to the
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39 The position is either a point (e.g. 234), a range (e.g
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43 If the position is not completely within the source
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47 The optional hyphen [-] at the end of the position
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52 -f Defaults to 100. This is the length of the nucleotides
53 --flanklen sequence retrieved on both sides of the given position.
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59 contains tag=value pairs for information about where in the original
60 sequence the subsequence was taken.
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62 The ID of the fasta entry is the name given at the command line joined
63 by hyphen to the filename or accesion of the source sequence. If no id
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75 position of the region of interest in the current entry. The tag is
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78 The sequence highlights the allele variant position by showing it in
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82 % flanks ~/seq/ar.embl
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84 >1_/HOME/HEIKKI/SEQ/AR.EMBL oripos=100 strand=1 allelepos=100
85 taataactcagttcttatttgcacctacttcagtggacactgaatttggaaggtggagga
86 ttttgtttttttcttttaagatctgggcatcttttgaatCtacccttcaagtattaagag
87 acagactgtgagcctagcagggcagatcttgtccaccgtgtgtcttcttctgcacgagac
88 tttgaggctgtcagagcgct
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91 The input files are assumed to be in EMBL format and the sequences are
92 retrieved only from the EMB database. Make this more generic and use
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