Hi, Could you provide us with more data? What kind of study would you like to do? How many sequences? Otherwise it is impossible to provide you with some answer or point you out to some previous questions asked here.

Try, just for a second, to imagine how somebody should be able to answer a question about your data without having the slightest clue about what your data looks like.

There are suddenly a lot of these badly formulated questions at the same time, looks like someone is either "joking" or a bot to me.

At first, I would like to inroduce my self , I'm Phd student ,working in DNA seq. field but with non biologica data. plesae, i'm ready to provide data , how I can send it ? I'm new in this forum. regarding no. of seq. , i have large no. of sequences,I can give more details later. But, now I have to send sample of my data, please tell me how? I do appreciate quick reply. thanks

At first, I would like to inroduce my self , I'm Phd student ,working in DNA seq. field but with non biologica data. plesae, i'm ready to provide data , how I can send it ? I'm new in this forum. regarding no. of seq. , i have large no. of sequences,I can give more details later. But, now I have to send sample of my data, please tell me how? I do appreciate quick reply. thanks

you don't need to send data. you need to describe though: - what is the biological question behind your intended analysis - how your sequences are derived - how many sequences you have - in which format they are (e.g FASTA) - which organisms they come from - what is known in general about these sequences, which genes, regions they come from

@Niek, I guess that some of these come from bots or 'trolls', for example those like: Please explain me (sic!) howto solve <any bioinfo="" related="" problem=""> using <any non-related="" prog.="" language=""> programming. Others like this one might come from beginner students trying to test the forum with their homework. Others again from people being put in positions to which they are not qualified (yet) being confronted with problems way over their heads.

thanks, my data is not biological data, i want to simulate the DNA seq. operations with my data. I want to find similarity(homology) among set of sequences to make to mke clusters. I drived my seq. from data (not biological environment). the no. of sequences are 7400 seq. I don't know what I have to use FASTA or Blast. Also, multiple or pairwise, local or global. I can give more details about my work for anyone can help.

huda, to say it clearly: it is quite likely that you are wasting our time with something that makes no sense at all! Applying algorithms made for biological sequence (e.g. protein sequences) on non-biological data (e.g. series of stock prices) most likely does not work. If you have more details about your project pls tell, it is most likely not a very clever idea anyway, so you do not have to be afraid that somebody is going to steal it ;)

you are kidding me??