Hi Khalil,

Then I think windowed sequence is the only way to go. Actually one particularly 
"interesting" idea has just sprung to mind. What if you translated the entire 
sequence in frame 1 forward & reverse? Then finding the amount of correct 
codons is a case of looking for amino acids which are not a stop or unknown 
amino acid.

Andy

On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:37, Khalil El Mazouari wrote:

> Thanks Andy,
> it's the second option I am looking for.
> 
> Regards,
> khalil
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 Apr 2011, at 13:23, Andy Yates wrote:
> 
>> Hi Khalil,
>> 
>> I'm not 100% sure what you want here. If you just want to know the potential 
>> number of codons on both strands of DNA then it would be (length / 3)*2. If 
>> what you are actually asking for is how many codons code for an amino acid 
>> then you would have to perform work similar to the transcription engine in 
>> BJ3. All codon tables are available from the IUPACParser class & then it 
>> would be up to you to use a WindowedSequence over the top of your NT 
>> sequence to get the windows or SequenceMixin.nonOverlappingKmers() which 
>> shortcuts the creation of the WindowedSequence.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> On 21 Apr 2011, at 11:36, Khalil El Mazouari wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am looking for a simple method or class to count the number of a specific 
>>> AA codon on NT seq. Counting on both strands.
>>> 
>>> Any suggestion is welcome. 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> khalil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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Wellcome Trust Genome Campus   Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468
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