Originally Posted By: paul

I don't consider what orac says as having any validity.



Oh honey give me a big kiss I love you big sexy beast.

But for the record even for someone as slow as you you must realise you don't need to record the atoms

ready I will do it real slow so you can follow

4 nucleotides = Adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine

Write them as a letter A, T, G, C

Now you can tramsit a DNA sequence as simply a series of letters

Here is the Phage Lambda virus DNA sequence

http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staffinfo/ehrmann/tools/dna/PhageLambda.html

Thats all you need to synthesize it because you know what A, T, G and C mean in terms of atoms it science shorthand.


Complicated I know now lets take this to a computer and use 2 computer bits


00 = A
01 = T
10 = G
11 = C

Here is the first 12 base pairs GGGCGGCGACCT and in my computer code it would be

GGGCGGCGACCT = 10 10 10 11 10 10 11 10 00 11 11 01

or simply 101010111010111000111101

Last edited by Orac; 12/06/12 03:16 AM.
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