From: broersma.juda_ANTISPAM_@tiscali.nl   
      
   Op 11 Oct 2005 04:05:55 -0700 schreef "Riaan" :   
      
   >This bloody lot has a number of caveats, and it's so infuratingly   
   >typical of the naivety so prevelant in so many comp-sci assignments -   
   >this decoding application as required by the assignment is pretty much   
   >useless as knees on a fish, to any geneticist, because it looks at a   
   >ridiculously tiny portion of the entire picture.   
   >   
   >>From a genetic point of view, the assignment is ridiculously   
   >incomplete: you have to check for Shine-Delgano elements if your   
   >sequence is known to be Prokaryotic, and in Eukaryotes simply checking   
   [snipping a lot ...]   
   >search for the first occurance of 'AUG'  within the sequence, and hop   
   >in 3-byte steps from there.   
   >   
      
      
   This is a little too complicated for me ;-)   
      
   >(Sorry, but I come from a Biochemistry background, and the likes of   
   >Thalodomide has taught us to not take anything for granted)   
      
   I'm just a plain and simple GP, so my knowledge of this kind of stuff   
   is rather rudimentary ...   
      
   >Anyhow, my approach is based on the fact that you can cast a string to   
   >the corresponding enum, at least, you can in Delphi. Don't know if this   
   >is possible in vanilla Pascal.   
   No it isn't.   
      
   (As I explained earlier, I redid the program in Delphi myself, as one   
   could spot from the Result := ... in the functions)   
   > I also don't know how fast or slow it   
   >is. The advantage is that your Codon-to-amino-name mapping is   
   >hardcoded, you just need to find a way to   
   >do the mapping.   
   >   
   I'm gonna give it a go an report back the results though.   
      
   Bart   
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