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Translate DNA to protein

Translate a DNA or RNA sequence in any frame with any NCBI genetic code, stops marked, the table id carried with the answer.

Sequence

Paste once, read every answer

Answer

Translate

One frame, with any of NCBI's genetic codes; stops are written as * and ambiguity codes as X unless the code decides the amino acid.

Paste a sequence, or open an example, and every operation answers.

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Worked example

  • The insulin coding sequence (333 nt) in frame +1 with the standard code: 110 residues and a stop, MALWMRLLPL… to …LENYCN, UniProt P01308.
  • Frame +2 of the same sequence is not a protein: stops are marked * and the count is on the card.
  • With a different genetic code (table 2, vertebrate mitochondrial) TGA reads as Trp and AGA and AGG as stops; the table id travels with the answer.

Method

Codons read from the frame's first complete codon; the table's amino acid, * for a stop, X when an ambiguity code leaves the amino acid open

  • Translation with NCBI's genetic code tables. NCBI. The Genetic Codes, gc.prt version 4.6 (last modified 10 June 2020), fetched 2026-10-06. Public domain.Checked against Biopython 1.88 exactly on 108 frame translations of three sequences in genetic codes 1, 2 and 11, full length and to the first stop, and on 5 annotated coding sequences (6 October 2026).

Constants

  • ncbi-genetic-codes-4.6: NCBI genetic code tables, gc.prt version 4.6 (public domain)

Limits

  • For research and education only, and not medical advice: nothing here is an assessment of any person's variant, sample or molecule, and a difference reported from a reference is a difference, not an interpretation.
  • A link keeps the inputs after the # of the address; it is not sent to a server, but it does stay in browser history and in any chat the link is pasted into.
  • Tags and protease sites are found by their published motifs and a cut is proposed at the site nearest an end; confirm it, since a motif inside the protein is not a cleavage site.

Verification