Open Reading Frame Figure Generator

Generate open reading frame representation from DNA sequences

Although MATLAB has tools to predict open reading frames (ORFs) from nucleotide sequences, none of them directly produce a visual representation of ORFs in a single figure. This program takes a sequence structure as input, predicts ORFs within each sequence, and draws a three-frame (positive only) representation of them. The argument isRef can conveniently transform ORFfigure into a comparison tool whereby the first sequence is used as a reference, local alignment determines the match between each seq entry and the reference, and colors matching sequence as blue and mismatching sequence as red. This software makes it easy to compare how nucleotide variants affect translation of a target gene.