Re: A Question about strings in lists
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- Subject: [mg102305] Re: [mg102240] A Question about strings in lists
- From: Thomas Dowling <thomasgdowling at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello, This can be most conveniently done using the Characters[ ] function. For Example, the BSA sequence from PubMed, which has been truncated to the first 20 amino acids pubmed[BSApart] = " 1 mkwvtfisll llfssaysrg //"; bsalist = ToUpperCase[ StringReplace[ StringReplace[ pubmed[BSApart], {Characters["1234567890//"] -> " "}], Whitespace -> ""]]; And: aaCharList = Characters [bsalist]; Length[aaCharList] Out[56]= 20 PERSONALLY, I like to convert from a string and to three-letter code, but using VaL **not Val** for Valine (and thanks to Wolfram for changing this) as I can then use commands that I am familiar with such as Count and Position, but you may prefer to work with strings. list3 = aaCharList /. {"A" -> Ala, "C" -> Cys, "D" -> Asp, "E" -> Glu, "F" -> Phe, "G" -> Gly, "H" -> His, "I" -> Ile, "K" -> Lys, "L" -> Leu , "M" -> Met, "N" -> Asn, "P" -> Pro, "Q" -> Gln, "R" -> Arg, "S" -> Ser, "T" -> Thr, "V" -> VaL, "W" -> Trp, "Y" -> Tyr}; For Example: Count[list3, Met] Tom Dowling. ";On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Marwa Abd El-Wahaab < m.a.elwahaab at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have a question about lists > > If I recall a protein sequence for example, the output will be > > { ACDQXXYWT ............... } > > This output contains amino acids but as one element in list & its length is > =1 > > How can I transform this one element to this form > > {A,C,D,Q,X,X,Y,W,T,......... } > > So, the length will be number of amino acids the protein contains > > I need your advice > > Thanks in advance > > *Marwa Ali Abd El Wahaab > Teaching Assistant* > Faculty of Engineering > Mansoura University > > >
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- A Question about strings in lists