NAME

       6ft - 6-frame translation of a DNA sequence into protein

SYNOPSIS

       6ft [ -rs ] seq-library-file

DESCRIPTION

       6ft  translates  all  six reading frames of a double-stranded DNA sequence into individual
       protein sequences.  Stop  codons  are  represented  by  character  "O".   seq-library-file
       contains one or several sequences in Pearson/Fasta format.

       This  program  may  be used for searching genomic or EST sequence databases with a protein
       profile. Better results are usually obtained by first converting the protein profile  into
       a  frame-search  profile,  and  then  searching  a 2-frame translation of the DNA sequence
       database generated with pftools program 2ft, see manual pages of pftool programs ptof  and
       2ft.

OPTIONS

       -r     Translate only reversed (antisense) strand.

       -s     Translate only sense strand.

EXAMPLES

       See manual pages of pftools program ptof.

AUTHOR

       Philipp Bucher
       Philipp.Bucher@isrec.unil.ch