telomerCounter

The bash script which intended for counting telomeres in DNA sequence of homo sapiens

Name: telomercnt - print number of telomeres in DNA sequence

Synopsis: telomercnt CHROMOSOME LINES

Description: telomercnt downloads CHROMOSOME of human, unzips and converts it to .fasta, searches telomeres (TTAGGG) in choosen first n LINES. If no CHROSOME number is given as parameter, script will ask for user input, If no LINES is given as parameter, default 125 lines will be appiled. Download source: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/Homo_sapiens/

Example: ./telomercnt.sh 20 200 output: 2