Module 12
Regular expressions: gentle intro
A powerful pattern-matching tool.
Patterns in text
Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful way to search for patterns in text. They look cryptic at first, but they are extremely useful.
import re
seq = "ATGCGTAATGC"
matches = re.findall("ATG", seq)
print(len(matches))Your task
Use regex
- Find all occurrences of ATG in a sequence.