Talk:AminoAcidColours.pl

Sources of color schemes

• http://life.nthu.edu.tw/~fmhsu/rasframe/COLORS.HTM
• http://www.inrp.fr/Acces/biotic/rastop/help/colour.htm
• http://www.bioinformatics.nl/~berndb/aacolour.html
• http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/hiv-db/HTML/tool-color.html
• http://www.accelrys.com/products/downloads/ds_visualizer/index.html
• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~linc1775/blueprint.htm

Molecules

• http://jmol.sourceforge.net/jscolors/

BioPerl 

http://doc.bioperl.org/releases/bioperl-current/bioperl-live/Bio/DB/Fasta.html#CODE33

<perl> sub _type {

 shift;
 local $_ = shift;
 return /^[gatcnGATCN*-]+$/   ? DNA
        : /^[gaucnGAUCN*-]+$/ ? RNA

 : PROTEIN; } </perl>

PHP equivalent

<php> function type($bases) {

 return preg_match("/^[\\d\\sacgtn*-]+$/i", $bases) ? "dna"
      : (preg_match("/^[\\d\\sacgun*-]+$/i", $bases) ? "rna" : "protein" );

} </php>

Amino acis letters, all alphabet except b (if not determined Aspartate or asparagine), j, o, u, x (special), z (if not determined Glutamate or glutamine) --Sven 14:31, 24 May 2007 (NZST)