Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: file2dna
Version: 0.1
Summary: A script o encode/decode arbitrary computer files into DNA sequences.
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Allan Inocencio de Souza Costa
Author-email: allaninocencio@yahoo.com.br
License: MIT
Description: DNA 
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        [![Code Health](https://landscape.io/github/allanino/DNA/master/landscape.png)](https://landscape.io/github/allanino/DNA/master)
        
        This is a python script to encode/decode arbitrary computer files into DNA sequences.
        It is a straight implementation of a method published in [this][1] Nature's paper.
        The details of the method can be found in the [Supplementary Information][2] report.
        The source code organization follows the article steps and nomenclature, so it should be easy to understand.
        
        How to use
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        The script accepts four types of operations passed as arguments together with the file name:
        
            ./dna.py <arg> <inputfile>
        
        The following arguments are accepted:
        * -e: encode <inputfile> and save as <inputfile>.dna
        * -d: decode <inputfile(.dna)> and save as <inputfile>.decoded
        * -s: encode <inputfile> splitting into various DNA segments and save as <inputfile>.splitted.zip
        * -j: decode <inputfile(.splitted.zip)> joining the segments and save as <inputfile>.decoded
        
        As a example, we can decode one the [files][3] encoded by the authors of the paper:
        
            ./dna.py -d examples/DNA_versions/wssnt10.txt.dna
            
        To see the decoded file:
        
            cat examples/DNA_versions/wssnt10.txt.decoded
        
        [1]:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7435/full/nature11875.html
        [2]:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7435/extref/nature11875-s2.pdf
        [3]:http://www.ebi.ac.uk/goldman-srv/DNA-storage/orig_files/
        
Keywords: dna encoding decoding file
Platform: UNKNOWN
