filter or remove pieces of sequences

[laszlos]

I have a column with thousands of rows like this:

actgctgattgATGGCTGRSTYGG etc., i.e. about 1000 lowercase letters followed by hundreds of capitals always starting with ATG.

I need to remove anything from the ATG on (i.e. all capitals) so that only lowercase letters remain in the column. Alternatively, only the lowercase bunches of letters could be copied to a new column.

I would highly appreciate help on this!

Thanks and greetings,

laszlos

 

[pgc01]

HI laszlos
Welcome to the board

You can use TextToColumns with delimiter "A"

 

[Peter_SSs]

I have a column with thousands of rows like this:

actgctgattgATGGCTGRSTYGG etc., i.e. about 1000 lowercase letters followed by hundreds of capitals always starting with ATG.

I need to remove anything from the ATG on (i.e. all capitals) so that only lowercase letters remain in the column. Alternatively, only the lowercase bunches of letters could be copied to a new column.

I would highly appreciate help on this!

Thanks and greetings,

laszlos

Welcome to the MrExcel board!

Try this:

1. Select the column by clicking its heading label.

2. Edit|Replace...|Find what: ATG*|Replace with: leave blank|Options>>|tick 'Match case'|Replace All|Ok|Close

 

[laszlos]

Hi PGC and Peter,

Thanks a lot, you both made my life easier .
I notice that TextToColumns not simply splits the text into two columns but also removes the delimiter (in this case A). It is no problem right now but later I might need to save both parts intact. Is there a way to do it?

Thanks,

Laszlo

 

[pgc01]

I notice that TextToColumns not simply splits the text into two columns but also removes the delimiter (in this case A). It is no problem right now but later I might need to save both parts intact. Is there a way to do it?

Laszlo

TextToColumns eats the delimiters. If you need both parts of the strings, better copy the column and use Peter's solution, to get what's before ATG. You can then get what's after ATG for ex. with a string function. If the ATG string only occurs once in the text, you can also use Peter's solution to get the second part, replacing *ATG with ATG.

 

[Peter_SSs]

... I might need to save both parts intact. Is there a way to do it?

You could do this with formulas.

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C
1	actgctgattgATGGCTGRSTYGG	actgctgattg	ATGGCTGRSTYGG
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