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New feature: Translate to best-fititng frame

Open amanzanom opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

Hello,

I am running into the issue of downloading cds/gene sequences that are (for some reason) not always starting on the proper frame, leading to the translate tool generating sequences with a bunch of stop codons. What I generally do is to translate to all frames, calculate the proportion of asterisks in each frame translation, and then trimming the nucleotide file accordingly. Would be great if something like this would be implemented in the translate tool

amanzanom avatar Oct 07 '25 14:10 amanzanom

Well, what we can do is to provide basic translation operations for one or all frames. Choosing the best frame can be achieved by using some basic statistics.

shenwei356 avatar Oct 07 '25 15:10 shenwei356