Shaw G
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Biotechniques. 2000 Jun;28(6):1198-201. doi: 10.2144/00286bc03.
Biologists today make extensive use of word processing programs for the production of research reports, literature reviews and grant proposals. Frequently, such programs become the default platform for viewing and the later publication of protein and nucleic acid sequence data. Thus, researchers often switch between their word processor and more specialized programs designed to analyze protein and nucleic acid sequences. It would be more convenient to perform these simple sequence analyses using the word processor without switching to another program. The focus here is on the use of the Visual Basic programming language, which is built into all recent versions of Microsoft Word to generate surprisingly complex and useful macros that can conveniently analyze several important features of protein and nucleic acid sequences. The standard Word interface can also be easily modified to display and run these macros from a pull-down menu. Several examples of this approach are provided.
如今，生物学家广泛使用文字处理程序来撰写研究报告、文献综述和资助申请。通常，这些程序成为查看以及随后发布蛋白质和核酸序列数据的默认平台。因此，研究人员常常在文字处理器和专门用于分析蛋白质和核酸序列的程序之间切换。使用文字处理器执行这些简单的序列分析而无需切换到其他程序会更加方便。这里的重点是使用Visual Basic编程语言，它内置于所有最新版本的Microsoft Word中，以生成令人惊讶的复杂且有用的宏，这些宏可以方便地分析蛋白质和核酸序列的几个重要特征。标准的Word界面也可以轻松修改，以便从下拉菜单中显示和运行这些宏。本文提供了这种方法的几个示例。
