translate.pl

Author: Abhinav Mishra

Name

translate.pl — translate DNA FASTA records into protein FASTA records.

Synopsis

perl scripts/translate.pl <input.fasta> [output.fasta]

Description

Applies standard codon translation from DNA sequence to amino-acid sequence, dropping non-ACGT characters and stop symbols.

Options

• input.fasta: input FASTA with one sequence record.
• output.fasta: output translated FASTA.

Input/Output

• Input: single-record DNA FASTA.
• Output: protein FASTA (*.translated.fasta).

Author

Abhinav Mishra (mishraabhinav36@gmail.com)

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2025 Abhinav Mishra. BSD 3-Clause.