Thursday, 17 November 2016

Creating a Character Table from Genetic Strings

In this problem we are given a set of DNA strings and are asked to create a character table. My solution to the problem can be found here. I got a bit hung up on the problem to start with because in the description they give the following sample data and output:

Sample Dataset
ATGCTACC
CGTTTACC
ATTCGACC
AGTCTCCC
CGTCTATC

Sample Output
10110
10100

It took me a while to realise that the output is only partial, and what they are really after is:

10110
10100
10000
10111
11011
11101

Which is a character array for each non trivial position in the sequences. When I finally had this figured, the programming itself didn't take too long.

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