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

pftools 2.2                                         July 1999                                             6FT(1)