Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-27 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Lauren wrote: > Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone for their help. I ended up > throwing something together using dictionaries (because I understood > those best out of what I had), that was a lot faster than my initial > attempt, but have run into a different problem, that I was hoping for >

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-27 Thread Lauren
l.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20070618/1cf0ac67/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:12:02 +0100 From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help converting base32 to base16 To: tutor@python.org Message

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence (fwd)

2007-06-18 Thread Alan Gauld
> From: Lauren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence > > after I download the one you wrote (which I think I understand > better than > the one listed previous...famous last words

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence (fwd)

2007-06-18 Thread Danny Yoo
auren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence Ok, these may be useful. I do have a potentially embarrassing problem, however I will preface this with I'm practically computer illiterate. Ok after I download the

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-18 Thread Danny Yoo
> Ok, what I have is a RNA sequence (about 5 million nucleotides > [characters] long) and have (4100) subsequences (from another sequence) > and the sub-sequences are 6 characters long, that I want to find in it. Hi Lauren, I am positive that this problem has been tackled before. Have you ta

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Lauren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Caveat: I am not into the realms of DNA sequencing so this may not be viable but... > Say I have chicken and I want to know where it occurs in a string of > words, but I want it to match to both chicken and poultry and have > the > output of: > > chicken (loca

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Terry Carroll
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Lauren wrote: > Subseq AU can bind to UA (which is normal) and UG (not so > normal) and I want to know where UA, and UG are in the large > RNA sequence, and the locations to show up as one...thing. How about something like this? =

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Paulo Nuin
oultry': >> print Lst1.index(i) >> >> >> 2 >> 3 >> >> Now, Kent or Alan and perhaps others will have a much more sophisticated way >> of doing this same problem. I'm still not exactly sure what it is you are >> lo

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Lauren
> simple operations. > > Hope it helps :) > > T > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Lauren > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:35 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a s

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Paulo Nuin
Hi Lauren You can use two approaches: 1- String method find This returns a int value with the lowest position of your search on the string (sequence) you are searching. From the documentation: *find*( sub[, start[, end]]) Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found, suc

Re: [Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Teresa Stanton
problem. My response is a simple list structure that has simple operations. Hope it helps :) T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauren Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:35 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Finding all locations of

[Tutor] Finding all locations of a sequence

2007-06-14 Thread Lauren
Ok, please bear with me, I'm very new to programming and python. And my question is rather...convoluted. I have a bunch of sequences (about 4100 or so), and want to know where they are in a very, very large string of letters. But wait, there's more. Some of these sequences match to more than 'word