Dear all, I am using kernlab package in R, and I have amino acid sequences with different lenghts as input for a SVM and I need to go through this sequences using windows (sliding or fixed) of size X. Does anyone has any suggestions about which function I should use? I thought I could use stringdot, but I am not sure whether it will do what I need.., I have defined my stringdot as: mystringdot <- stringdot(length = 7, lambda = 0.5, type = "sequence", normalized = TRUE) and my svm as: ksvm(mydata[,1],data=mydata,type="C-svc",kernel=mystringdot,C=10) but it doesn't work. Thank you ever so much, Renata ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam