sequences

[Tom Hall]

BioEdit at http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/RNaseP/info/programs/BIOEDIT/bioedit.html

It allows searching for user-defined patterns allowing you to specify nucleic
acid or amino acid sequences, or exact text matches (with wildcards) including
or ignoring alignment gaps.

The package is a little big (8 Mb) if you're not looking for a bunch of other
stuff, though.
Also, it only runs in Windows 95/98/NT.

Jeanine Lanen wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> is there a (shareware) tool available that is capable of finding a kind of
> wild-card searches, for instance a search for
> Ala-Cys-Ala-X-X-X-X-Ala-Glu-X-.......
>
> thanks
>
> William