Hi all!
I am new to perl, and this is my first post ever!
I am trying to translate nucleic acid sequences into amino acid sequences. I create a script (below). When I run the script with only the translate frames 0 & 1, then the script runs fine. Upon adding in the translate frame 2, the script stops working and I receive errors (below). Also, I tried running the translate frame 2 by itself, but receive the same errors.
I've tried searching these errors/message individually to troubleshoot myself, but I can't figure it out. Any guidance is much appreciated!
Script:
#!bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Bio::SeqIO;
#script to translate nucleotide sequences to amino acid sequences in f
+irst three frames
my $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => "sequence.fasta", -format => "fasta"
+);
my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">Frame1.fasta", -format => "fasta"
+);
my $out2 = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">Frame2.fasta", -format => "fasta
+");
my $out3 = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">Frame3.fasta", -format => "fasta
+");
while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) {
my $prot = $seq->translate();
$out->write_seq($prot);
my $prot2 = $seq->translate(-frame => 1);
$out2->write_seq($prot2);
my $prot3 = $seq->translate(-frame => 2);
$out3->write_seq($prot3);
}
Errors:
substr outside of string at /sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/Bio/PrimarySeqI.pm line 644, <GEN0> line 5013.
------------- EXCEPTION: Bio::Root::Exception -------------
MSG: Calling translate without a seq argument!
STACK: Error::throw
STACK: Bio::Root::Root::throw /sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/Bio/Root/Root.pm:472
STACK: Bio::Tools::CodonTable::translate /sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/Bio/Tools/CodonTable.pm:411
STACK: Bio::PrimarySeqI::translate /sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/Bio/PrimarySeqI.pm:648
STACK: translateframe.pl:11
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