Re: [FWP] DNA.pm

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:02:41PM -0400, Steve Lane wrote:
> Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > NAME
> >     DNA - Encodes your Perl program into an Amino Acid sequence
> 
> C, A, T, and G are not amino acids; they're nucleic acids
> (the "NA" in DNA).  they -code- for amino acids.  and,

Oh, my AP Biology teacher would be disappointed. :(


> >     CCAA CCAA AAGT CAGT TCCT CGCT ATGT AACA CACA TCTT GGCT TTGT AACA GTGT
> 
> these would better be arranged in groups of three, as three
> bases make a codon, which codes for one amino acid.

True, but that means I could only encode 6 bits of information per
group.  God obviously never had to work with high ASCII.



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