Genetic Codes

This repository contains ready-to-use files of the genetic codes downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

How to use them

The genetic code tables are in the maps directory. The name of each file corresponds to the translation table code used by NCBI. The list.txt file maps these codes to their corresponding descriptions (e.g. 1 is Standard, 2 is Vertebrate Mitochondrial, and so on).

Materials and Methods

Sources

This NCBI page contains a compilation of the different genetic codes made by Andrzej (Anjay) Elzanowski and Jim Ostell at NCBI. I copy-pasted each genetic code table into a file at sources, naming them with the NCBI translation table code. The names of the translation codes are available at list.txt. Moreover, the HTML code of the page is available at sources/ncbi.html.

From tables to maps

Then, I ran the following lines to convert the tables into maps:

mkdir -p maps
for file in $(ls sources | grep -v "html"); do 
	./table-to-map.sh "sources/$file" > "maps/$file"
done