[Biopython] Need help in making a back table for the CodonTable object

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Sep 14 14:56:07 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Alexander Castro
<alexanderdcastro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Peter, my goal was replace one codon in a sequence with another
> to perform a "silent" mutation. I did not want to do this mutation manually
> and offload the work to BioPython.

I see - leave most of the coding sequence as it was, but replace just
one codon in order to have a synonymous mutation. This isn't just a
simple back translation, but the reverse lookup table code I suggested
should be useful here.

Peter



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