Re: [FWP] DNA.pm

[Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>]

An entity claiming to be Michael G Schwern (schwern@pobox.com) wrote:
: 
: > >     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.
: 

Is it necessary to allign on any particular boundaries?  If you treat the
source as a bit string and break it into 6 bit units, codons work fine
(unless there is some distribution requirement).

Mark

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