[BiO BB] Random Sequence Generator

[Iddo]

Dan Bolser wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:
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>>Can anyone recommend a good random sequence generator program available
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>perl -e '@x=qw(A T C G);for(1..10000){print $x[rand(@x)]}'
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>Other than that it kind of depends on what your requirements are (and
>aparently the above random generator isn't too good).
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>perl -e '@x=qw(all work and no play);while(1){print $x[rand(@x)]}'
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Well, as long as we are in the 
not-so-great-one-line-random-sequence-generators business:

python -c 'import random; z=["A","C","G","T"]*10; random.shuffle(z); 
print z'


For a sequence of length 10.

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