[Bioperl-l] Writing bp_grep

[Peter Cock]

On Sunday, May 13, 2012, Carnë Draug wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I'm starting to write a grep tool for sequences (bp_grep). The idea is
> to have something just like grep but for DNA and protein sequences
> with most of the options that make sense in this context (print the
> filename or sequence name only, position, without match search, count,
> etc). I was wondering if anyone has any piece of code that could fit
> in it or started something similar but just never finished.
>
> Thanks,
> Carnë
>

This sounds like EMBOSS preg,
 http://emboss.open-bio.org/wiki/Appdoc:Preg

I thought they had a nucleotide equivalent but I can't see
it right now....

Peter