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- From: bsh@MED.PITT.EDU (Basavaraju Shankarappa)
- Newsgroups: bionet.software
- Subject: Re: software for silent mutagenesis
- Message-ID: <9301052220.AA09065@miranda.med.pitt.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:20:49 GMT
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- > In article <1992Dec30.185104.9506@alw.nih.gov> usdin@helix.nih.gov (Ted Usdin) writes:
- > >Weiner and Scheraga (CABIOS, vol 5 pp191-198, 1989) described a Macintosh
- > >program (Gene.Design.?) to assist in introducing restriction sites into DNA without changing the amino
- > >acid sequence. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this, or a similar
- > >program that runs on a Macintosh?
- >
- > There is a similar program which runs on a PC called OligoMutantMaker.
- > It is available by anonymous ftp from:
- > Host fly.bio.indiana.edu
- >
- > Location: /molbio/ibmpc
- > FILE -rw-r--r-- 8540 May 14 1991 oligo.doc
- > FILE -rw-r--r-- 231882 May 14 1991 oligo.uue
- > Dan Jacobson
- > danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
-
- I would like to add that we have also developed a PC compatible
- program called SILMUT for identifying regions for the introduction of
- restriction enzyme sites by silent mutagenesis. Although we have used
- the same principle as detailed in the above two programs our approach
- was highly simplified. This programs just tells you what restriction
- enzyme/s can be introduced by silent mutagenesis in a specific sequence
- of amino or nucleic acid. This program is most useful for those who are
- contemplating introduction of RE sites to generate casette vectors or
- for swapping specific fragments of a gene in a construct.
- The program is also available on fly.bio.indiana.edu in the
- directory molbio/ibmpc as two files: Silmut.xxx.
- The work has been published in Biotechinques 12: 882-884 (1992).
- The program sets include source codes for the program which has been internally
- documented. The programs work in PC and unix machines but if anyone can
- make it work on a Mac, we would welcome that.
-
- Raj Shankarappa
- bsh@med.pitt.edu
-