I'm guessing you mean that the order of the stuff in brackets is unimportant, so AT is equivalent to TA and TAG equivalent to TGA etc.
Perl has no way of knowing that the key AT means the same thing as TA unless you tell it in some way. If all of your sequences can be reversed, then you could do something like.
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