Wednesday, March 6, 2013

command line reverse complement sequence in linux shell

Sometimes it seems like BSD / GNU / Linux folks thought of everything.

echo AATGATACGGCGACCACCGG | rev | tr ATGC TACG

3 comments:

  1. Thank you! This is great for my current quick searches.

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  2. Finding this out made my day a lot better!

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  3. Very nice indeed!
    I would add
    echo "AG" | rev | tr ATGCatgcNn TACGtacgNn

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