I opened up terminal, and used the ssh command to get into dondi's directory: ~dondi/xmlpipedb/data.  In there I got access to infA-E.coli-K12.txt which is the nucleotide sequence I will be using for this assignment.   

I opened up terminal, and used the ssh command to get into dondi's directory: ~dondi/xmlpipedb/data.  In there I got access to infA-E.coli-K12.txt which is the nucleotide sequence I will be using for this assignment.   

# Modify the gene sequence string so that it highlights or “tags” the special sequences within this gene, as follows (ellipses indicate bases in the sequence; note the spaces before the start tag and after the end tag):

* Modify the gene sequence string so that it highlights or “tags” the special sequences within this gene, as follows (ellipses indicate bases in the sequence; note the spaces before the start tag and after the end tag):

* -35 box of the promoter

* -35 box of the promoter

**As shown in class I used the sed command to get the first occurrence of the minus 35 strand in the sequence:

**As shown in class I used the sed command to get the first occurrence of the minus 35 strand in the sequence: