Re: DNA-Allele Analysis

From: Joseph Ashwood (ashwood_at_msn.com)
Date: 04/16/05 

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 05:08:29 GMT

"Dave Turner" <nobody@nowhere.nohow> wrote in message
news:42608976$1@quokka.wn.com.au...
> How would you break a DNA molecule down into 1s and 0s? (if i recall
> correctly, it's not just a matter of on/off switches, but rather several
> 'options'?)

I'm not certain about the rest of this, but this one I can answer easily.
DNA is composed of 4 molecules (IIRC generally referred to as T,C,G, and A)
arranged in a very simple, complex, but in the end linear fashion.
Generating a series of bits from sych a sequence is very simple:
00 = T
01 = C
10 = G
11 = A

set a specified order for chromosomes, a beginning end, and everything else
should be fairly obvious. This gives you the ability to store the entire DNA
sequence, making the analysis that produces the stream the hard part.
                    Joe

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