Re^2: extracting open reading frame (ORF) from a FASTA file

Hi Boris,

about ur codes right.. may i know what this line means and why do we need to minus 3?
my $start = pos() - 3;

secondly, substr ($_, $start, $stop - $start), $/;

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Re^3: extracting open reading frame (ORF) from a FASTA file by borisz (Canon) on Jul 12, 2005 at 07:42 UTC
`-3` since the position is after ATG. `$/` is just the newline for the `print` statement. Boris	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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