Fun, little school project.

[Guest]

Hey guys, could I get some help? My class was learning about DNA and it reminded me how each nucleotide pairs with a complementary bond to form a hydrogen base. Most of you know how A goes with T, and C goes with G, and how when RNA is made, T is replaced by U. Can I make a program in C#.Net, where when you enter in a string such as AATGGCGA, it will convert it to TTACCGCT. Then, you can take that program and convert it to mRNA's code UUACCGCU. I think maybe I can get extra credit for making a simple program. I am a complete beginner to coding, just downloaded Visual Studio 2013. I am watching Barnecules' Codegasm video as I type this. I really want to get into this and all help is appreciated. You guys are awesome and this forum never fails me when it comes to stuff like this. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I could make it in C if I knew what are you talking about. But I don't know

Please don't watch codegasm if you want to learn to program. Those videos are meant to make you interested in programming.

[mansoor_]

I made you a matlab code because i dont know c#.net

you may be able to use it as psuedo code if you decide to make it yourself:

clc;clear dnacode = input('what is the dna code  ','s');dnacode = lower(dnacode); for i = 1:length(dnacode)        if dnacode(i) == 'a'                dnacodeconjugate(i) = 't';            elseif dnacode(i) == 't'                dnacodeconjugate(i) = 'a';            elseif dnacode(i) == 'g'                dnacodeconjugate(i) = 'c';            elseif dnacode(i) == 'c'                 dnacodeconjugate(i) = 'g';             else                disp('invalid dna code')        break            end    enddnacodeconjugate = upper(dnacodeconjugate);disp(dnacodeconjugate)  

[werto165]

Hey in c# it would look very similar to @mansoor_ example. You could obviously make the dna string to string dna = console.readline();  

string Dna = "AATGGCGA";  //string i want to change to : TTACCGCT                          //TTACCGCT            char[] charDnaArray = Dna.ToCharArray();            int Length = Dna.Length;            Console.WriteLine(Length);            for (int i = 0; i < Length; i++)            {                if (charDnaArray[i] == 'A')                {                    charDnaArray[i] = 'T';                 }                else if(charDnaArray[i] == 'T')                {                    charDnaArray[i] = 'A';                }                else if(charDnaArray[i] == 'G')                {                    charDnaArray[i] = 'C';                }                else if(charDnaArray[i] == 'C')                {                    charDnaArray[i] = 'G';                }                         }            Console.WriteLine(charDnaArray);

[-TesseracT-]

 

Please don't watch codegasm if you want to learn to program. Those videos are meant to make you interested in programming.

Why?

[Guest]

Why?

 

As I said:

Those videos are meant to make you interested in programming.

He represented programming like its lego. 

[madknight3]

I watched the first video. Seems good enough for someone starting out.