Hi Andy,

I am actually counting codons via 6 ORFs translations. I am working on ±100.000 
seq/run => 600.000 ORFs to check. So, performance is an issue for my job.

I am just wondering if counting Codons directly on NT seq (both strand) will be 
faster vs translation + AA counting.

Regards,

khalil


On 21 Apr 2011, at 13:40, Andy Yates wrote:

> 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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