Dear all,

I am currently trying to shuffle the codons of a DNA sequence. The sequence needs to be split in groups of 3 characters and those groups need to be shuffled. So far I was able to split the sequence in groups of 3. However, I do not succeed at shuffling them randomly. I am uncapable of installing the list utils... I do not seem to find a good tutorial for macOS.... And I am unable to correctly introduce the Fisher Yates algorithm into my source code... Another noob has entered the monastery... My code so far : 

 print "enter sequence and signal end with enter followed by ctrl d\n"
+;
$sequence = <STDIN>;
chomp $sequence;
print "sequence inserted : $sequence\n";
@trips = unpack("a3" x (length($sequence)-2), $sequence);
@trips = join(" ", @trips);

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so I am looking to shuffle @trips and then store it into @shuftrips for example.

Kind regards,

Wouter

In reply to Shuffling CODONS by WouterVG

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