DNA for the 48
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By Luka Crnkovic-Dodig <devalmont@geocities.com>


DNA is used to define the way a protein is made.
As you all know, a protein is a long chain of amino-acids.
It is very easy to decode a DNA string and get which amino-acids
are to be produced.

The DNA doesn't directly initiate the construction - it must first
be transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA). 


The 'DNA' collection of programs is to be used for these conversions.

Programs:

mR2A   - mRNA to Acid: Converts a mRNA string into a Amino acid chain.

DNA2mRNA - Converts a DNA string into a mRNA string

mRNA2DNA - Well, you guess what this does...

chkDNAS  - Check if the DNA/RNA string has the correct format, number of elements...



It is quite easy to use.

Example:
  What amino-acids does the following DNA string construct:
  "ATGATCATA"
Answer:
  "ATGATCATA"
   
                 DNA2mRNA
  "UACUAGUAU"

                 mR2A

  "-TYR-STP-TYR" - which is the amino-acid chain.



This is a pretty simple program I wrote for a friend of mine - a chem student.
I myself have nothing to do with chemistry - I am just a poor CS student - so
please don't blame me for any errors in this text :)

cheers
  Luka Crnkovic-Dodig


<devalmont@geocities.com>
http://www.luka.home.ml.org

     
  