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First steps with DNA sequences in your browser

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A 15-minute hands-on tutorial for beginners: base composition, extracting a region with a BED file and reverse-complementing with seqtk, all in the browser with nothing to install.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: BED, FASTA, GC content, base composition, reverse complement, seqtk, teaching

Competency level: • Beginner

Resource type: hands-on tutorial

Learning objectives:

  • Read a FASTA file and count its bases
  • Recognise start and stop codons
  • Reverse-complement a sequence
  • Use a BED file to cut a region out of a genome

Authors: IEETA, University of Aveiro

External resources:
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