Bioinformatics

Convert variant location to dna change

Using regex in Python

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We dealt with 3 cases:

• Single change : A → G for example
• Insert : A → ATTG
• Delete : ATTTG → A

Example : 2–42442-A-T will be converted to chr2:g.42442A>T

Hope it helps~~

PEACE~~