Translation Tool

This page hosted a translation tool that took raw nucleotide sequences and returned their amino acid equivalents. It accepted DNA or RNA input, typically pasted as plain text or in FASTA format, and it did not try to validate much beyond stripping whitespace and rejecting characters outside the standard bases. Given a sequence, it produced the conded protein across all three forward reading frames, and with a checkbox, the three reverse-complement frames as well. Output was a fixed-width amino acid string, one letter per residue, with stop codons marked by an asterisk. Nothing more.

The file was named tranlatetool.shtml, missing the second "s" in "translate." The typo dates to the original 2003 deployment. We have left it in place. Several external pages and at least one published methods section link to that exact URL, and renaming the file would turn those references into dead links. Preserving a misspelled path is ordinary archival hygiene, not an oversight.