Biological Sequence Pasting Shortcuts

Fast and efficient shortcuts for grabbing biological sequences from clipboard

When pasting biological sequences from the clipboard into MATLAB, contaminating characters, such as newlines, must be removed before the sequence can be used. These three shortcuts- take, takes, and protake- paste biological sequences from the clipboard and remove contaminated characters. Take copies nucleotide sequences and allows for degenerate bases. Takes is the strict version of take and only allows for A, C, G, T, and -. Protake replicates take, but for protein sequences, including - for gaps and * for stop. Each shortcut is case insensitive and can be called to assign the output to variables or directly within function expressions. Ex: "seq = takes;" or "[score,algnmnt] = swalign(takes,otherseq,'Alphabet','NT');"