STRANSLATE(1)

💖 STRANSLATE(1) 💖

general commands manual ✨ bestie edition ✨

okay so. sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about stranslate, the little icon of the General Commands Manual. 🧚

🌸 NAME 🌸

stranslate — translate a nucleic acid sequence to protein ORFs 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

stranslate [-options] <seqfile>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a bunch of options and one little sequence file. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this manual page is gonna give you the brief rundown of the stranslate command. not the whole novel, just the plot. 😌

stranslate is a program that creates a file of all possible protein ORFs, given an input nucleic acid sequence. it's giving ✨molecular biology✨ and honestly? obsessed. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

the available options, no gatekeeping:

• -a — translate in full, with stops; no individual ORFs. it's the whole thing, unedited, no cuts. 🎬
• -h — help! shows a brief usage and the version info. when in doubt, ask for help, bestie. 🙈
• -l <minlen> — only report ORFs greater than minlen. the default is 20. so yeah, tiny ORFs stay uninvited to the party. 🚫
• -m — require ORFs to start with AUG/Met. picky, but in a valid way. 👑
• -o <outfile> — save results in the output file. put it somewhere you'll actually find it. 💾
• -q — quiet mode; silences the banner, for piping or redirection. shy but efficient. 🤫
• -s <stopchar> — with -a, set the stop character to stopchar. ⛔
• --tetrahymena — use the Tetrahymena/Oxytricha genetic code. fancy genetic code, fancy girl. 🧬
• --watson — only do the top strand (frames 0/1/2). 🧬
• --crick — only do the bottom strand (frames 3/4/5). 🧬

ok so lowkey important: --watson and --crick are just picking strands, frames 0/1/2 versus 3/4/5. don't come for me if you mix them up, that's a you problem. 💀

🎀 NOTE TO DEBIAN USERS 🎀

real talk: the original program name is translate. it got renamed to stranslate to avoid conflict with another program of the same name. so if you're out here searching for translate, that's why it's not picking up. name change, same energy. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, they're the friend group:

• afetch(1)
• alistat(1)
• compalign(1)
• compstruct(1)
• revcomp(1)
• seqsplit(1)
• seqstat(1)
• sfetch(1)
• shuffle(1)
• sindex(1)
• sreformat(1)
• weight(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Sean Eddy HHMI/Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine 4444 Forest Park Blvd., Box 8510 St Louis, MO 63108 USA Phone: 1-314-362-7666 FAX : 1-314-362-2157 Email: eddy@genetics.wustl.edu

and this manual page was written by Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). iconic behaviour, honestly. 👑

and that's the page, bestie. this was dated Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:28:08 -0300, and it's part of the General Commands Manual collection for STRANSLATE(1). go translate something and slay. 🦋✨💖