Re: OT: Perl problem

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tony Butler" <lists@xxxxxxx>
>

> Quoting Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx>:
> > Can't help, as I have no Perl myself, just insanely curious...
did you
> > actually pick those four letters at random for a demonstration,
or do
you
> > have a looong stream of DNA sequence?
>
> Yes, it is one of the two :)
>
> It's a loooonnnnngggggg stream of DNA sequences - full marks mr lowe!

In which case, 80 characters seems an odd number to chop into?

I'm a bit rusty here, but if it's a proper DNA sequence, surely it would
make more sense to chop into a length that's a multiple of three, otherwise
you will split codons over each successive line?

I.

ps> purely out of interest, I'd love to know how many "CAG"
repeats you find
across the whole genome.