Galaxy tool to back-translate a protein alignment to nucleotides

This tool is copyright 2012-2017 by Peter Cock, The James Hutton Institute (formerly SCRI, Scottish Crop Research Institute), UK. All rights reserved. See the licence text below (MIT licence).

This tool is a short Python script (using Biopython library functions) to load a protein alignment, and matching nucleotide FASTA file of unaligned sequences, which are threaded onto the protein alignment in order to produce a codon aware nucleotide alignment - which can be viewed as a back translation.

This tool is available from the Galaxy Tool Shed at:

• http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/align_back_trans

The underlying Python script can also be used outside of Galaxy, for details run:

$ python align_back_trans.py

Automated Installation

This should be straightforward using the Galaxy Tool Shed, which should be able to automatically install the dependency on Biopython, and then install this tool and run its unit tests.

Manual Installation

There are just two files to install to use this tool from within Galaxy:

• align_back_trans.py (the Python script)
• align_back_trans.xml (the Galaxy tool definition)

The suggested location is in a dedicated tools/align_back_trans folder.

You will also need to modify the tools_conf.xml file to tell Galaxy to offer the tool. One suggested location is in the multiple alignments section. Simply add the line:

<tool file="align_back_trans/align_back_trans.xml" />

You will also need to install Biopython 1.62 or later.

If you wish to run the unit tests, also move/copy the test-data/ files under Galaxy's test-data/ folder. Then:

./run_tests.sh -id align_back_trans

That's it.

History

Developers

This script was initially developed on this repository: https://github.com/peterjc/picobio/blob/master/align/align_back_trans.py

With the addition of a Galaxy wrapper, developement moved here: https://github.com/peterjc/pico_galaxy/tree/master/tools/align_back_trans

For pushing a release to the test or main "Galaxy Tool Shed", use the following Planemo commands (which requires you have set your Tool Shed access details in ~/.planemo.yml and that you have access rights on the Tool Shed):

$ planemo shed_update -t testtoolshed --check_diff tools/align_back_trans/
...

or:

$ planemo shed_update -t toolshed --check_diff tools/align_back_trans/
...

To just build and check the tar ball, use:

$ planemo shed_upload --tar_only tools/align_back_trans/
...
$ tar -tzf shed_upload.tar.gz
test-data/demo_nucs.fasta
test-data/demo_nucs_trailing_stop.fasta
test-data/demo_prot_align.fasta
test-data/demo_nuc_align.fasta
tools/align_back_trans/README.rst
tools/align_back_trans/align_back_trans.py
tools/align_back_trans/align_back_trans.xml
tools/align_back_trans/tool_dependencies.xml

Licence (MIT)

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