Maybe you mean to say geneticists, or molecular biologists, or at least bioengineers?
shadist wrote:I'm confused by the assignment of numeric values to AGTC...or more specifically, how did Zach go from that to the value assignments for the entire alphabet? I'd like to know
The AGTC refers to the nuclear bases in your DNA, and you derive the assigned numbers from this sequence to find the letter that they translate into (e.g. GGG = 111 = the letter V). In the end all he's doing is converting the nuclear bases into numbers. You'd think there'd be a problem concerning this kind of coding as this guy says:
CodyMan wrote:As someone who works in compression, I am deeply troubled by the lack of a prefix-free code. Does GAA mean BAA or Q!?!?!? I'm never going to be able to decode their marriage vows from this mess.
I guess the best way would be to place leading 0's with the letters with less than 3 representative digits, e.g. 001 for A, 010 for E, etc.
Today I'll be the ass nitpicking Zach by pointing out that he should be referring to the genetic sequence (in the template strand) rather than the genetic code, which is a fixed "language" that our body uses to read the DNA sequences.
Maybe you mean to say geneticists, or molecular biologists, or at least bioengineers?
[quote="shadist"]I'm confused by the assignment of numeric values to AGTC...or more specifically, how did Zach go from that to the value assignments for the entire alphabet? I'd like to know[/quote]
The AGTC refers to the nuclear bases in your DNA, and you derive the assigned numbers from this sequence to find the letter that they translate into (e.g. GGG = 111 = the letter V). In the end all he's doing is converting the nuclear bases into numbers. You'd think there'd be a problem concerning this kind of coding as this guy says:
[quote="CodyMan"]As someone who works in compression, I am deeply troubled by the lack of a prefix-free code. Does GAA mean BAA or Q!?!?!? I'm never going to be able to decode their marriage vows from this mess.[/quote]
I guess the best way would be to place leading 0's with the letters with less than 3 representative digits, e.g. 001 for A, 010 for E, etc.
Today I'll be the ass nitpicking Zach by pointing out that he should be referring to the genetic sequence (in the template strand) rather than the genetic code, which is a fixed "language" that our body uses to read the DNA sequences.